Word: hardiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Holmes' friendships with the major figures of the Northeastern aristocracy (Henry and William James and Henry Cabot Lodge, among others), not to mention the three separate battle wounds he suffered as an officer in the Civil War, and you have a life history that could intimidate even the hardiest of biographical explorers...
...believable urban legend, argues Brunvand, must have a combination of active ingredients in anecdotal form: currency, anonymity ("Guess what happened to a friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned...
...that contributes to amazing productivity," says John Madson, author of Where the Sky Began, a natural history of the prairie. The Rockies govern the climate, forcing the prevailing winds that blow off the Pacific to give up moisture and continue eastward too dry to nourish much other than the hardiest grasses--short in the dry shadow of the mountains, taller toward the Mississippi...
That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
...there is nothing very fetching about the planet Venus. It is veiled in a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, laced with corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, and its surface temperatures hover around 900° F. Liquid water, if it ever existed, has long since vanished. Nothing, not even the hardiest microbes, could survive for long in this cauldron...