Search Details

Word: mister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...home in suburban Bloomfield Hills, and is active in Detroit area civic and charitable groups. He likes jazz and Big Band music, but has no hobbies. His close friends tend to come from outside the auto industry, and he has made a point of avoiding the social circles of "Mister Ford," as lacocca and other Ford executives respectfully call their ruler. lacocca once explained, "I don't want to be fired for something I said to Mister Ford over drinks at the 21 Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Upward Automobility | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...MISTER?" abroad black face inquires, and your eyes follow his extended hand to a junkyard-special '67 Chevy that is obviously suffering in the heat. Whatever color it may have been originally, time has faded it to a sort of nondescript grey. You start to move, then remember--it's not yellow, it has no medallion form the Taxi Commission, it's a gypsie cab. A hundred newspaper headlines fire the peculiar sort of panic that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot by this...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The End of the Line | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...Mister buy a paper, (I hope you won't refuse.) It only costs a penny- The Chicago Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1978 | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...know it's something. Even you sometimes, you see a little bird, and you don't stop and think. You just look at that bird, you tell your wife and children; but there's more to it than that. You take moose, deer, raccoon, all kinds of animal; and mister, if you stop and think, them's the most intelligent persons, on two legs or four. And if you do respect...sometimes I feel like I can communicate with these animals...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

Saxophonist Grover Washington will be playing at Paul's Mall Sunday thru Wednesday. Washington's pieces tend toward the funky; and while some of his songs seem uninspired, a few of his compositions--including "Mister Magic"--have gained critical and popular acclaim...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Mingus, Carter: Back to Bassists | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next