Word: nik
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
KREMLIN RUMBLING WITH NIK RUMORS, gave way to NIKITA QUITS...
...sure what part of the Sput nik the chunk of steel came from. It is roughly lens-shaped, with one face smooth and the other covered with very rough steel that looks as if it had melted and then hardened again. This could have happened if the chunk moved white-hot through the atmosphere with the smooth face forward, allowing molten steel to flow to the cooler rear side and solidify there...
Against Intellectuals. The News was so hard on Harry Truman that he once complained that "it has treated me like a pickpocket." It has called Washington the Negro capital of the U.S. It is merciless toward the Supreme Court: "Court-nik," editorialized the News, has "surrendered to subversion." Chief Justice Earl Warren is a particular bête noire of News Editorial Columnist Lynn Landrum: "Earl Warren would not make a good, reliable justice of the peace." The News stands against intellectuals ("during the last 20 years they have been wrong by a wider margin than any other group that...
...time for my TV show," cried Nik suddenly, reaching for his sunglasses. "Why don't you interview my daughter Sonia? Pravda has picked her as favorite in the May Day egg-rolling contest on the Kremlin lawn...
...focussed on Sonia, and the sounds of Nik and Boris kicking the soccer ball down the corridor receded in the distance...