Search Details

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


Usage:

Pridi Banomyong's henchman, Prime Minister Thamrong-Nawasawat, was dancing a tango at a charity ball one moonlit night two weeks ago when a friend whispered warning words in his ear. The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery. Meanwhile Phibun's military friends, using Siam's 20 or so ancient little Swedish and Japanese tanks and armored cars, took over Bangkok. Phibun, as new Supreme Commander of Siamese Forces, entered the Defense Ministry on the shoulders of cheering soldiery. Many officers prostrated themselves in homage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Return of Phibun | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many of his readers in flight long before they finish For the Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lawyer's Hero | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Indulgent parents built the Lam-14LAMPY'S CARTOONIST looks in on the Crime in 1902 when the paper's ledgers began to be written in black...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgis, | Title: Colorful Crimson History Began with Off-Color Magenta... | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...Gould-Richardson simplification approaches Tibetan along a new trail familiar to children who have played with codes. It breaks down the study of the language into syllables and corresponding numbers. Using both, the student can put together words (lam means road, lam-chak means railroad, lam-yik means passport) and can link up written forms with phonetic values. Handy Tibetan phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Found Horizon | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Life on the Lam. Every time one of them went to a grocery another trailed a half block behind, with a sawed-off shot gun under his coat. This was double protection : against the cops or a double cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Good Night's Sleep | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | Next