Search Details

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


Usage:

...though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless from everywhere across America to itself, gathering them in this sinkhole so they can leech off each other...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: City of Blight | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous in social tone, it helped save them from the hateful obsequiousness of modern society painting. For Gainsborough was his own man: not a grand one, but not a toady or a leech either. "Damn Gentlemen," he once wrote. "There is not such a set of Enemies, to a real Artist, in the world as they are ... But I, who blow away all the chaff & by G- in their Eyes too if they dont stand clear, know that they have but one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laureate of the Ruling Classes | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...

Author: By Rich Strasser, | Title: Beyond the Copacabana | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...Wildcats came back again in the third period, however, moving within one on Jay Leech's fastbreak goal with four minutes gone in the half. Crisis point came a few minutes later when some unfriendly referees left the Crimson two men down. The Harvard defense held, however, creating a turning point and setting the stage for the late Crimson assault...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Stickmen Bury UNH, 11-6 For Seventh Straight Win | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Norman Forbush 2 4 6 Faught 4 4 0 4 Ward 3 0 3 Egasti 2 0 2 Bill Forbush 0 2 2 Wiggiesworth 0 1 1 Miller 0 1 1 UNIV. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Ryan 1 2 3 Ganzer 2 0 2 Noyes 1 1 2 Leech 1 1 2 Fay 1 0 1 Van Vieck...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Stickmen Bury UNH, 11-6 For Seventh Straight Win | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next