Word: earlied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thinking achieved its greatest success of the week. Despite serious disagreements over policy during their fifth get-together, Margaret Thatcher and Gorbachev still seemed devoted to their mutual admiration society. Their talks, cooed the Iron Lady, were "very deep, very wide ranging and very friendly." Grinning from ear to ear, Gorbachev enthused that their "mutual understanding is increasing." So much so that Queen Elizabeth even accepted an invitation to visit the U.S.S.R., a historic royal acknowledgment of the distance between Gorbachev and the Bolsheviks who murdered her Romanov cousins...
...mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove a Mazda RX7. How did he afford it? "Easy," he says. Hudson, 25, played basketball for a time overseas. Today he wears $450 amber-tinted sunglasses and a diamond stud in his left ear. He still talks about making the N.B.A., but a knee injury he suffered in college makes that a long shot...
...including Adams' mother Mildred, a retired supervisor at a home for retarded children, and friends from her Baptist church with yellow ribbons around their necks. Adams plowed through the crowd to hug his mother and then the teary-eyed Morris. At the press conference, Adams' sister whispered in his ear that Texas had decided not to retry him. He squeezed his mother's hand so tightly his knuckles turned white...
They are easy on the ears, a test for the fingers and a balm for the spirit. With a little imagination and manual dexterity, electronic keyboards can make otherwise struggling players feel like pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...
Moreover, doctors warn that even brief exposure to noise levels greater than 115 decibels can result in permanent hearing damage. But boomers turn a deaf ear to such objections. With one sound-off rally scheduled for Austin in two weeks and another on Easter Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla., the air will soon be filled with the sound of cars going boom in the night...