Word: lethally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perfectly manipulated anarchy of Decline and Fall, at once playful and lethal, was peopled with a rout of sinister caricatures tagged with unforgettable names (Waugh is probably the most inspired creator of synthetic surnames since Charles Dickens). There were Lady Circumference and her numskull son, little Lord Tangent; Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde (later Lady Margot Metroland) and her son, Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later...
Loss of hair is the "most alarming" of the superficial effects of radiation, the Army doctors reported. But, assuming that there is a head left for it to grow on, the hair will grow back: "The hair will return if the patient has not received a lethal dose of radiation...
Well might "MacArthur wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home," or at any other point on our shores; does Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press [TIME, March 15] consider the Hearstian kiss of death any more lethal than the Pendergast kiss of death...
...unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item in 1937 because it offended an advertiser, Edie quit. For 4½ years she went into semiretirement; she "threw hundreds of sensational parties," which usually found her at the piano-"a lethal weapon in my hands." In 1942, bursting with dammed-up gags and gossip, Edie went back to columning for Billy...
Northwestward between Bermuda and Puerto Rico, a hurricane was boring in on the U.S. coast. From San Juan, the Navy's "hurricane hunters" skewered through its lethal winds in four-motored planes, probing for new weather information. On one flight last week, the United Press's Milton Carr went along. His account...