Search Details

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


Usage:

...half dozen posts and missed by an inch three dozen other times," Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong said. "It just didn...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Michigan State Finishes Harvard | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Katarina Witt is the most extreme example in recent memory, with a ballerina's body and a model's features; her performance Saturday night made the most of her seductive looks. Swathed in a red dress with black sequins, her face layered with an inch of rouge and at least as much eyeshadow, Witt cut a striking figure as she skated onto the ice. After a few minor spins and jumps she entered the second sequence of her program, the memorable part--she kicked, she tossed her head, she waved her arms, she smiled. She looked compelling and sexy...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Athletes or Aesthetes | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...probably the world's only building with snowplow blades on its corners to clear a path as it rotates about a circular track. When its doors open, they reveal not a sleek, tubular telescope, but a six-eyed monster, a hexagonal array of half a dozen 72-inch mirrors, the sum of whose images equals the capacity of a single mirror 176 inches across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: White-Knuckle Astronomy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...impairment suffered some 40 years earlier, when a pistol was fired close to his right ear during a filming session. To balance his hearing, the President later put a second device in his left ear. Last week Reagan, 77, began sporting new hearing aids that come with a half- & inch-thick, credit-card-size remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House: On Remote Control | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...Israelis themselves who must come to terms with what the settlers represent: an insistence on keeping every inch of the land that 1.4 million Palestinians also claim. Until the nation as a whole faces that dilemma, the turmoil is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Neighbor Against Neighbor | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | Next