Word: petitioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clinics with prepaid health-care plans. Physician-Novelist Cook enjoys stretching credulity (in his previous blockbuster Coma, people were murdered to provide organs for the transplant trade). Here a league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent of nuclear weapons in order to preserve its market share. The petit Dr. Blumenthal discovers the Hippocratic hypocrisy only after she is turned into a composite of Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman, crisscrossing the country to study and contain flare-ups of EHF. Cook's best-selling technique is infallible: he lowers his readers' resistance with hard science, then exposes them...
...King George VI and ended with a crisis of leadership surrounding the eventual abdication of the playboy Prince of Wales Edward VII. France was paralyzed by a kind of national paranoic fear that money-grubbing businessmen were controlling the country to the detriment of the average working class and petit bourgeois citizen...
...cooking for his father, his brother and himself. Even pastries. I had never noticed that he was in the kitchen often, or that he watched or asked me questions and I never tried to teach him. But suddenly, he simply began to cook . . . Il est encore mon petit garcon...
When it comes to the size of his portions, the avid French gourmet usually avoids the gargantuan in favor of the petit. The merest taste of his favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island...
Building were reported burning in the towns of Gonaives, Petit-Gonaives, Les Cayes and Cap Haitien...