Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night, I lug my personal-sized Quadling Winnebago to The Crimson. I get home around 10:30 or 11 every night...
...find the remains." He said the American MIA office in Hanoi would like to excavate the Scharf crash site, because even if most of the bones have been removed, it is possible that a few teeth or other fragments might remain. But it would be next to impossible to lug the necessary gear up the mountain, and Vietnam's Soviet-built helicopters are too large and unreliable to risk setting down in that treacherous terrain. Another joint team visited the area last month to see if they could pinpoint the gravesites. The U.S. side took its findings back to Hawaii...
...Saturday Night Live Wires. Saturday Night Live and SCTV unearthed a generation of gifted farceurs and mimics. The farceurs displayed their oversize personalities on TV, then did more of the same in Hollywood. John Candy, for instance, plays the jolly lug, coping with crisis by wearing it down. In his O.K. new movie Delirious -- the season's second daytime-drama parody, after Soapdish -- he is a soap-opera writer who is knocked silly and dreams that he is a prisoner in his own show. The premise is frail, but Candy gives it his usual shrug-it-off assurance...
...small, almost gentle features are stranded in his moon of a face. And no fellow shaped like a nose tackle is going to cut a chic figure in those desert jammies. You look for John Wayne, and you find Jonathan Winters crossed with Willard Scott: a lunch- pail lug who should be shambling into the Cheers bar to a chorus of "Norm!" Norm? Is that any name for a general? And is it absurd or poetic that the successor to Arnold Schwarzenegger as America's favorite macho man should be H. Norman Schwarzkopf...
...nuisance to lug around gas masks and protective gear, but no one complains. For the troops on the ground, the greatest fear is of chemical attack, a strike by an enemy they cannot see. "You imagine walking around, and your buddy is lying on the ground having convulsions, and you have to inject him with atropine," says Private First Class Myra Camacho, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y. That is why the troops love the chickens...