Word: dint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs. Last week, when his "farewell" tour opened to packed, enthusiastic houses on Broadway, he was incarnating the King for the 4,434th time...
...their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world by dint of their intelligence if they could only get their hands on the control...
...some way, candidates like Ferraro unwittingly invite this kind of treatment. She did not get to where she is by dint of a cause, ideology or even issue. Ferraro got to where she is because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign...
...Boston Brahmin's Boston Brahmin, Richardson assures voters that he will have instant seniority upon reaching the Senate floor, merely by dint of the many connections he has made serving a number of Presidents--most recently Jimmy Carter--over the past three decades...
...laboratories were reportedly urging on Bok. Nor has he taken unusually active role in collective Faculty affairs as some might have expected of a new dean. Rather, at 40, Spence is one of the youngest and, by all accounts, brightest members of the Faculty. He should, simply by dint of not being all that well known, bring a breath of fresh air to University Hall...