Word: hollande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shoulders are nearly lethal, and the pace is exhausting. Anguish seemed to be the prevalent expression at Malibu's Pepperdine University pool. But in the beginning the look of the powerful U.S. team was one big smile. The speedy squad mounted unnerving counterattacks to overcome Greece, Brazil, Spain, Holland and Australia. West Germany, however, was more formidable. With the game tied at 7-7, West German Goalie Peter Röhle was ejected on a penalty, and Doug Burke of the U.S. scored with only 26 sec. left. The rough-and-ready Yugoslavs squelched U.S. hopes in the final...
...news recently, the shooters complained?seriously?that they were not getting enough practice.) The Irelands unite North and South for a moment to create a single team. Astonishingly, the Koreas considered doing the same. They matter, these Games: to Belgium's cyclists, Argentina's single sculler, Holland's swimmers, the boxers from the Seychelles. India's field hockey team is out to prove something against Pakistan. Kenya's long-distance runners have things to prove to themselves. Cheers for the Chadians. Hail to the Swazis. Where else would these people come together so eagerly...
...mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small and the language is not exactly a popular international currency...
DIED. J. Paul Lyet, 67, chairman from 1972 to 1982 of Sperry Corp.; of cancer; in New York City. A C.P. A. from a brass-knuckled North Philadelphia slum, he was working for the New Holland farm machinery company when it was taken over by Sperry in 1947; he kept that operation running profitably during the 1960s when the company's Univac division was bungling its head-to-head computer competition with IBM. As Sperry's boss, he more than tripled revenues to $5.6 billion, pushed for high-tech sales to the Soviet Union, expanded ex ports...
...mode--the skirts held out by invisible means as well as the soft drapes which held their own line without visible support--owed their qualities to the new, man-made fibers. Indeed, these models would not have been possible without the aid of such novel fabrics as featherweight holland linings and diaphanous but firm, stiffened nylon. --"The Aesthetics of Fashion" James H. Lubowitz, Fine Arts...