Word: perished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home...
...training and by belief, the Professor thinks in terms of scholarship. His rise to tenure was part of a highly competitive system entitled "publish or perish." And even with tenure, the pressure to publish is increased as more is expected of him. While upper level courses, particularly those in the Graduate Schools might stimuate the professor or even help him, there are few professors who feel that College level lecturing is an important aid to their scholarship...
...Lubbock and bringing the Cabinet divorce rate to three times the national average. The story got front-page play, but no voice was raised to suggest that divorce would blight what is left of Lloyd's political career, which, observed Daily Express Columnist George Gale, "will blossom or perish according to his abilities and not according to his private life. Private disaster is at last private...
...great crisis of a tapeworm's life comes in the egg stage. When it is first launched on the world, usually in fecal matter, an egg cannot survive unless it happens to be swallowed by an animal that can serve as intermediate host. Most eggs perish, but the survivors that find a home spring into a burst of frantic activity. Out of their capsules come hook-armed embryos that claw their way through the intestines of the intermediate host and form cysts in its tissues...
...Love or Perish, by Smiley Blanton (Simon & Schuster; 164,000 copies sold so far). Puckish Smiley Blanton, 74, has for 19 years spread psychiatric good cheer belowstairs at the Marble Collegiate Church in the clinic which he founded with Dr. Peale and still heads. More than most psychiatrists, he understands that the meaning of love extends beyond the ability to make it. But his book is a hodge-podge of marital, parental and occupational anecdotes...