Word: parcelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning of Saturday, December 6, Lewinsky went to the White House to deliver a letter and gifts to the President. Lewinsky planned to leave the parcel with Ms. Currie, who had told Lewinsky that the President would be busy with his lawyers and unable...
When you've lived as strange a life as PATTY HEARST's, you learn not to do things regular people do, like open your mail. According to the New Yorker, Hearst's lawyer has a few questions for the Drug Enforcement Agency after the heiress received an odd parcel, called the two numbers on its address, found they were pay phones and immediately called the cops. Had she opened it, she would have found $20,000 to $40,000 worth of drugs. She was informed of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after...
...Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 343 The first parcel of cards played, is usually for noir, the second for rouge. 1850 [see INVERSE sb. 3]. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette iv. 56 The even money chances are Rouge or Red, Noir or Black, Coleur [sic] and Inverse. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling vii. 171 (caption) The dealer lays out two rows of cards (le noir and le rouge) until each total 31 or more. Players bet that one or the other row will be nearer to 31 by placing chips on rouge or on noir...
...Thanks to the new spirit of partnership between the City of Boston and Harvard University, we now have a big enough parcel of land to build a library that will serve many needs for the residents of Allston well into the next century," Menino said...
...topic of sponsorship, it is interesting to note that of the 11 major corporate sponsors for the Games, only one of them--Panasonic--is a Japanese company. Most, like the United Parcel Service (UPS), are American companies looking to gain a stronger toe-hold in Japan through advertising, promotions and free services--along with putting the company name on everything they possibly can. In this time of economic crisis in East Asia, Japan especially needs to save face. Perhaps regaining economic trust is the best way to forget the scandals that have recently plagued the Hashimoto administration...