Word: flings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nonetheless, it is Spirit and Opportunity that are generating the most buzz, at least partly because the 6.3 billion of us left behind on Earth will be able to share the trip. As with the Pathfinder mission, NASA will fling open a trio of websites that will track the surface explorations as they unfold. Whatever the spacecraft learn, we'll learn along with them--and it could turn out to be plenty. "We have on these rovers so many capabilities that have never been present on another planet," says Steve Squyres, the missions' principal investigator. "I guarantee...
...most traditions, there are patterns at work here. At the beginning of the season, the Tigers win a game or two, and their famously demented fans predict total victory. Then, very soon, their outfielders start dropping flies, their infielders fling routine ground balls in the general direction of Mount Fuji and three Tigers runners simultaneously arrive, bewildered, at the same base. Their home-run hitter goes off to join the Detroit Tigers. Their arch-rivals, the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, claim the pennant. And the Tigers fans, like Japan's perennially beleaguered politicians and CEOs, promise domination next year...
ATLANTA—It’s summer fling season and, yes, I’m in love...
...soon enough, two large lips fill the screen and it’s time for the legendary “late night double feature picture show.” Wedding bells ring in Rocky Horror’s opening scene and the crazies begin to fling rice at other audience members. The girls cover their heads...
...rose from 18% of total rum sales in 1998 to 39% last year. Flavored vodkas are similarly flush. Even Martin Friedland of Jenkintown, Pa., an importer of fine spirits for more than 50 years, won't call flavored liquors a fad; the worst he'll call them is a "fling...