Word: howl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slogans: the Chicago Tribune has long called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
...drawings are witty, and some of the caricatures of Egyptian and Roman reliefs are a real howl. The wide-screen problem is neatly solved to the advantage of the audience: contrasts, which can be achieved on the regular screen only by cutting from picture to picture, can now be improved by setting the pictures side by side...
Along the Indian-Chinese frontier, the longest frontier in the world between oppression and a democracy, Communist infiltrators are burrowing into the border states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim-which lie upon India's side of the great Himalayan battlement (see below). From this frontier, where ice-winds howl and lichen creeps around the tall mountains, an Indian Army Mission reported: "Long considered impregnable ... the frontier . . . [is] now looked upon as a possible route of infiltration, if not of invasion...
...University City (TIME, Feb. 23). For Alemán and his friends, the biggest was best for Mexico-and for themselves. They remembered well the maxim of President Manuel Avila Camacho's brother: "If you build a road for 75,000 pesos and pocket 1,000, everybody will howl. But if you build a road for 75 million pesos and knock Dack a million, nobody will notice...
...briefing officer said, "a day worth drooling over," a fine day for hunting MIGs. With the howl of a tornado, four F-86 Sabre jets roared up from the Korean airfield and headed north for MIG Alley. For half an hour they climbed steadily, timing their ascent to conserve fuel and reach the Yalu at 45,000 ft. At that altitude, everything was silvery and incredibly bright; above, the sky was dark and greyish...