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Then, in a single episode a few weeks ago, Big Love managed to jump more sharks than Evel Knievel in a sequel to Jaws. The whole Henrickson family went nuts, even by their own elastic gauges of plausibility. Eldest daughter Sarah more or less abducted and adopted a junkie Indian mother whom Barb had knocked over with her car on the reservation. On a trip with Bill to Washington, D.C., Nicki was found packing a pistol in a government building. Wife No. 3, Margene, gave her sort-of-stepson Ben a big smooch, recorded live on the home-shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

...competitors think there's only one way to get through this economy - to go down the price ladder," observes Richer. "But we refuse to play by that book. We have no interest in hurting the long-term value of our brand or our bikes." (See pictures of Evel Knievel, motorcycle stuntman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harley-Davidson Tries to Rejuvenate Its Business | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...candidates have been frequent visitors to Big Sky Country. Both showed up on April 5 for the state Democrats' annual Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner at the Civic Center in Butte (where the last major event was December's spectacular funeral ceremony for native son Evel Knievel). Obama has been running prime-time TV ads in Montana markets for the past month, the latest using footage of his Montana appearances. Clinton's cash-strained campaign, meanwhile, waited until just a few days before the vote to place her spots. But she has also been represented in the state by surrogates like husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Democrats' Last Stand | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...ROBBIE KNIEVEL breaks Dad's record by jumping over 24 Coke Zero trucks. Remember when it was all about the daredeviling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...those who grew up watching him on TV, Evel Knievel was much more than a self-promoting daredevil with 38 broken bones to his credit: he was a flawed superhero. Sure, the motorbiker's bravado was insane; he jumped cars, buses, canyons and the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace (above)--a feat that landed him in a coma for a month. He also liked to drink and was once jailed for assaulting a writer with a baseball bat. Yet whether he cleared his intended target or behaved nicely was beside the point. Evel, who changed the spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's All-Too-Human Superman | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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