Word: peninsulars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extent that geography adds to the vulnerability of major power lines, New York is not alone. In the peninsular state of Florida, all the lines to power pools elsewhere run up and down in a fairly narrow corridor. Last May 2.5 million residents in five Florida counties (including Miami's Bade County) were without power for approximately four hours after the electric system short-circuited...
During the Peninsular War, French soldiers used it for target practice. It is a wreck, blackened and blistered: but of what a vessel! Spanish religious painting takes on the grand rhetoric, the "mighty line" of Marlowe: the arc of stricken figures at the foot of the cross, its profile ending in a folded blaze of green, gold brocade and crimson; the faces of weeping women, smeared and half eroded by darkness; the immense twisted figure of Christ, "quoted" from a Michelangelo drawing, that rises on the cross. Even if there were nothing else in the Royal Academy, this painting alone...
...Vietcong "nests" inland. Later, he files battle reports claiming a savior's laurels, and he recommends his crew for medals of bravery. He releases press statements detailing dangerous engagements with the enemy, when in fact all he has done is interfere with battle operations while swooping down on deserted peninsular huts...
...father take his daughter on a cruise to Alaska without stirring up a fuss? Not if Daddy is Cory Grant. Outraged because the Peninsular and Oriental passenger steamship company released a picture of him and his four-year-old daughter Jennifer (his only child, by Actress Dyan Cannon, 32), the 66-year-old actor called off the trip and vowed to sue the line. Why? Because, said Gary, "my ex-wife and I have agreed not to allow our child to be photographed. There's too much crime and violence in the world, and we don't want...
...kaffeeklatsches reciting a script of prepared cliches. When someone cracks the simplistic pattern, her pleasant, natural naivete congeals into frigid, wary courtesy. Yet her aversion to pornography, big government, welfarism, crime, dope and Ho Chi Minh has thrust the gamut of national issues into the campaign along with such peninsular problems as high taxes, education and the noise from San Francisco's airport, which is in the midst of San Mateo County's most densely populated area. Shirley is the odds-on favorite to win at least a plurality and possibly the 50%-plus-one-vote tally needed...