Search Details

Word: errants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...There's more to worry the French. "We saw in experiments that Tuber indicum is very dominant, competitive and aggressive," frets Gerard Chevalier, a researcher at INRA. He paints a scenario in which errant spores from imported Chinese truffles disperse into the air, contaminate the French countryside and do ecological battle with their more fragile cousin. Already, the ancient truffle terroir is being hammered by pesticides and urbanization. Two centuries ago, French black truffles were so abundant that they were cheaper than tomatoes; yet since then, the average annual harvest in the P?rigord region and beyond has declined from some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truffle Kerfuffle | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...good fortune and?his legend taking a more modern twist?one who can bless new cars and trucks. In Malaysia, where he was known for a miraculous ability to call out the names of babies he had never met, mothers hold him up as a model father to errant partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missionary, Explorer, Hero | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

Even when Nwokocha intercepted an errant Fitzpatrick pass late in the second quarter, there was no thrill of fear or flashback to last year’s debacle. Because at that point, the half was winding to a close, odds were good that the steadfast Crimson defense would stall the Lions in their tracks and, oh yeah, Harvard was up by three touchdowns...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TAKE THE KENNELLY: Football Officially Puts Past in Past | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Thus the play casts a cocked eye—and the occasional errant juggling ball—at the many stages of life that follow the epididymis men’s procreative dance. In one particularly revealing number, As You Like It’s “seven ages of man” speech is set to Queenly guitars as the four men take places behind rock instruments...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Puns, Politics and Lots of Flying Balls | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...been written by the time he was 26, including such poems as "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" and "When All My Five and Country Senses See." After that he survived largely by playing the role of the errant romantic genius, though he did manage to produce Under Milk Wood, his enduringly popular play for voices, in his last years. After a teenage stint on a newspaper in his native Wales, the only paid work he found was giving talks on BBC radio, writing film scripts during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Going Gentle Anywhere | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next