Search Details

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


Usage:

...last summer, Tommy Sexton, 15, of Bowie, Md., and some neighbors were driving home after a day of fishing, when a car driven by David Watkins swerved into their lane and hit them. Sexton was killed. Watkins, who was drunk, suffered no injuries on the highway and a mere slap on the wrist in court. He received a two-year probationary sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They're MADD as Hell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...badgering legislators, police, prosecutors and judges to crack down on drunk drivers. One of the leaders of the movement is Candy Lightner, 35, of Fair Oaks, Calif. Fifteen months ago, shortly after one of her three children was killed by a drunk driver while walking in a bicycle lane, Lightner quit her job as a real estate agent to found Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD). The organization now has 25 chapters in five states. Says she: "We've kicked a few pebbles, we'll turn a few stones, and eventually we'll start an avalanche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They're MADD as Hell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...when he's at the gym, he sneers a little inside at those who gossip and horse around when they could be doing flys and bench presses and straight leg raises and squats. By the time he's done, he has to drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile." When he gets home, he can't lift his arms above his shoulders to wash his hair; he can only down ten to 12 ounces...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Lola Lane, 75, one of the three Lane sisters (the others: Rosemary and Priscilla) who became leading ladies in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s and who, while maintaining separate careers, appeared with another actress in Four Daughters (1938), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941); in Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...Superman II is more than just another adventure for our favorite hero. In addition to saving the planet, and perhaps the universe, he confronts his own past, throws a dinner party for two at his North Pole bungalow, and--horrors!--exposes himself in more ways than one to Lois Lane. Superman has passed through intergalactic puberty. The Caped Wonder has come...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Look! In the Motel! It's... | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | 553 | 554 | Next