Word: knew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World War II, moments before his brave death he became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because...
...bread and butter, but he's becoming a box office regular. In 2006, his movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector earned $15.6 million, proving that enough of Whitney's fans would show up at the multiplex for the potty humor and Dale Earnhardt Jr. references they knew from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to make his films profitable. As the voice of the tow truck character Mater in the Pixar movie Cars, Whitney was introduced to some other demographics...
They're like twin antediluvian monstrosities: too ugly, too wonky, too scaly and strange to flourish in today's cold political climate when the blinding comet of television has wiped out their kind, leaving only furry grinning mammals behind. Richard Nixon barely knew Henry Kissinger when he appointed him, notes Robert Dallek in Nixon and Kissinger, but they turned out to be two of a kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin...
...schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust, but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World War II, moments before his brave death, he became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because...
...well.” Farbotko will join classmate and running back Clifton Dawson—who was signed as an undrafted free agent on draft day—in Indianapolis as soon as finals end. “It was nice to have [Dawson] there to have someone I knew just right off the bat,” Farbotko said. “It just added another level of comfort.” Dawson echoed these sentiments. “I’m definitely happy,” he said. “Matt did an outstanding...