Search Details

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


Usage:

That grisly episode (from Tony Hillerman's novel Talking God) is fictional, but it epitomizes the tensions in a dilemma that confronts curators, anthropologists and those Native Americans who angrily oppose them. To many scholars, and to much of the museum-going public, the Indian bones and burial artifacts are valuable clues to humanity's past. But to many Indians, these relics are sacred and the archaeologists who have appropriated them no better than grave robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Returning Bones of Contention | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Some of the quotes on which the authors cast aspersion are phrases that everyone knows to be inaccurate. Any one who thinks that Humphrey Bogart really said "Play It Again Sam" hasn't seen Casablanca. If you think the Bible is the home of the maxim "God helps those who help themselves," then God help...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Washington Redskin Coach Joe Gibbs better check and see if God is still on his side after last Sunday's loss to Philadelphia. Looks like Eagles Coach Buddy Ryan has been making a few extra visits to the chapel...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Hipitude: Cubbies and O's Are Cool | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...Thank God Beth's finger's were long enough," Johnston said. "That play was completely Beth's whole-hearted effort. She played amazing all day--she really saved...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: W. Booters Blank 'Cats, 1-0 | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...thing for Gibbs to tell Washington-area television viewers that football was not number one in his life, and that God was. (A little perspective never hurts.) But to use his position at the helm of the Redskins to espouse a certain religion and sell religious books? Who did he think...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next