Word: guess
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...that there were two of her…and three kittens living in a bush outside our building. This led to the high point of animal inhabitancy: seven cats, three humans, and two goldfish I won at the Presbyterian Church carnival, a veritable menagerie in a two-bedroom apartment.I guess I grew up in a family where pets were members of the family. My childless aunt and uncle sent us photos of their Scottie dogs every few months, and queries about the cats (“How are Castor and Pollux?”) always followed the personal greeting when...
...pretty sure women in the Victorian era took a break from demanding the vote to hitch up their petticoats and show a saucy swath of ankle, paving the way for their liberated granddaughters to pay for their own $34.99 Vixen Pirate costumes from Party City. I guess reducing women to pneumatic parodies of actual people with Y chromosomes—Sexy policeman! Sexy fireman! Sexy lumberjack!—is bad and all...but for every embarrassing minus to ill-fitting corsets and such (quadra-boob, for example), there are quite a few pluses. Who will we right-thinking Second...
...strategy to get the win. “[Genscoy’s] unorthodox and throws a lot of spins that guys aren’t used to,” Nguyen said. “I was instructed to be more aggressive and go to the net and I guess it worked. I executed it well.” Earlier, Nguyen defeated opponents from Yale (6-2, 6-2) and Princeton (7-6(6), 7-6(6)). His close match with Alex Krueger-Wyman of the host Tigers was won with both players breaking the other’s serve...
...attempt to preserve Harvard’s two-goal cushion and knock the Ivy leaders out of first place.Mann’s save in a tight spot and her performance on the day earned glowing praise from her coach. “It’s just a guess, but she’s a world-class player,” Leone said. “She’s the best player in the league that anyone’s seen in quite a long time.”The victory puts the Crimson...
Three estranged, white, well dressed brothers travel by train across India with custom designed luggage in search of enlightenment, or at least a moral compass—all set to a graceful blend of Satyajit Ray and the Kinks. You’ve got one guess who made the film.Right-o folks! It’s the “The Darjeeling Limited,” and it has Wes Anderson’s thumbprints all over it.Along with writer-producer Roman Coppola and actor Waris Ahluwalia, the director spoke this week with reporters at Boston’s Four...