Search Details

Word: foiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Freshmen phenoms Jim O'Neil and Matt Auer were the only two fencers to reach the finals. O'Neil finished fourth in the epee and Auer ninth in the foil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing up to ten MIRV (for Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) warheads at different targets in the U.S. The bus may also release up to 100 decoys, many of them aluminum-foil balloons. 3) Mid-course. The warheads and decoys speed through the emptiness of space for more than ten minutes. 4) Re-entry. The vehicles plunge back into the atmosphere and toward their targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Rueckner punched a tiny hole in the foil, Glauber announced they were making "the world's most expensive pinhole camera." The camera successfully projected Rueckner's face onto the screen...

Author: By Andrew R. Elby, | Title: Young Students Take Science Course | 2/5/1985 | See Source »

...illustrate light's behavior, Glauber's assistant Wolfgang Rueckner took the lens off their TV camera and replaced it with a sheet of foil...

Author: By Andrew R. Elby, | Title: Young Students Take Science Course | 2/5/1985 | See Source »

...enormous amount of resilient charm but no comic timing, or comic presence of any sort. In all of her scenes with Moore she exudes a dry earnestness that seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier, and sillier than in any of his films since Arthur. Always a master of the "Mr. Sensitivity" roles...

Author: By Cerus M. Sanai, | Title: Husband and Wives | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Next