Search Details

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


Usage:

Obviously, no professional thief in his right mind would try to steal any of those gems. They would take for granted that burglar alarms are stretched like invisible fish nets across the room, that sharp-eyed guards march hither and yon on everlasting alert, and that at the very least the windows are locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Museum Jewel Robbery | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...would have taken a Will Rogers-Mark Twain partnership to turn the Democrats' smoothly controlled convention into compelling TV fare. But even if the intellectual or emotional content had been higher, the networks' tactics of rushing reporters hither and yon would have confused the viewer. The trouble, argues Cronkite, lies with the networks' "efforts to stay competitive at the cost of telling a cohesive story." Said he: "In many cases it's difficult to understand what's going on, because the entertainment and pictorial aspects of the story keep getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What Next from Planet Lyndon? | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...under Betancourt, the presidential household often resembled a threering circus. Appointments were constantly broken while the President chased hither and yon. Leoni, who spent six years straw-bossing Betancourt's A.D. Party, is a better administrator. He sees every minister at least once a week privately in his office, presides at a regular weekly full-dress Cabinet meeting. He pays careful attention to Venezuela's sensitive military. And he still finds time for the public ribbon-snipping that Betancourt found so useful. Last month, on a trip to Maracaibo, Leoni dedicated a new teachers col lege, the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Romulo's Successor: | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...that conclusion did very little concluding. Still stretching ahead was the steep, stone-stubbled campaign road to November. And in their anger and anguish at Goldwater's imminent nomination, Barry's Republican critics seized on battle cries that will echo hither and yon-and be picked up by the Democrats-throughout the coming campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Cinched Nomination | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

With no femme fatale like Garbo, no woman with the animal splendors of the young Ava Gardner, Hollywood has completely lost its come-hither look, falling behind the competition from Europe, where Sophia Loren still unquestionably rules the pantheon. Around her, Bardot and Lollobrigida are fading. But Romy Schneider, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale and Elke Sommer can each outsex all that the American industry has to offer. Hollywood is so barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Sex Shortage | 12/13/1963 | 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