Search Details

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


Usage:

While commerce of this kind stood to profit them by $80,000 apiece, even the participants were disposed to grump and spit. "It's unfair to the schoolkids, the eight-year-olds," said Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez, 33. "They can't stay up all night." Red Sox Manager John McNamara, a pragmatist in most things, was heard to mutter, "I suppose I'll get somebody mad by saying it, but I did notice that today was a beautiful day. I thought about what a beautiful day it would be to play baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Small Delights and a Big Chill | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...officials are not permitted to spend the night among the 226 residents, most of whom still claim pure Hawaiian ancestry. On the mainland, small ironies continue to tinge a region's complexion. New Yorkers complain about the Hispanization of the Big Apple, while New Mexicans of Spanish descent grump that their state is becoming too Anglo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World of Diversity in the Unity | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...Desperate but not Serious," the Ants reduce the Moody Blues to a cliche by making lust sinister. It almost works, but a happy-go-lucky bass line ruins the ceric vocals. In "Here Comes the Grump," the group turns self-reflective (ah, the traumas of being Number One) and even rehash the Shakespearean pun on death as orgasm...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Hardcore Curriculum | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...quality encouraged forgiveness of his occasional wasted screen moments, a certain sympathy with his troubles. When his last marriage, to his wife of the past 16 years, the former Shirlee Adams, turned out happily, and he and his children finally formed a mutual admiration society (though he continued to grump about Jane's Method acting), one shared his obvious pleasure and pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Palpable, Homespun Integrity | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...chairman of the board, Patrick Frawley Jr. Mamie Eisenhower presided like a kind of surrogate grandmother. Martha Mitchell came extravagantly dressed in a vaguely antebellum orange and white ruffled, ankle-length gown and carrying a bright yellow parasol. She brought it into the Rose Garden, leading Melvin Laird to grump: "I thought everybody checked their umbrellas inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mr. Cox Takes a June Bride | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next