Search Details

Word: porches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

QUOTE: "You let a bully come into your front yard, the next day he'll be on your porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Lessons From a Lost War | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...yellows and peaches, and state entertaining is a pageantry of grace and beauty. The gray squirrels come up to the windows of the Oval Office and knock when the President has not gone to Camp David for the weekend and brought back acorns to leave for them on the porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Tidings at Mid-Passage | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...coach ever wooed an All-Stars pitcher or a Super Bowl quarterback. Lansing said that DeVries would benefit from a substantial clinical practice and a first-rate surgical support team. To help convince DeVries, Humana flew him and his wife to Louisville. At a dinner on the porch of Lansing's home, Jones asked DeVries, "How many hearts do you need to find out if it works? Would ten be enough?" As a flabbergasted DeVries indicated that ten would be good, Jones added, "If ten's enough, we'll give you 100." That sealed the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earning Profits, Saving Lives | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...could become so Brazilianized, you couldn't express yourself in English," he decided. Nowadays, Rabassa works on the sun porch or in the kitchen of his Long Island home, producing a first version "as fast as I can type." He then carefully revises his draft, penciling in queries for the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Couriers of the Human Spirit | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...open now on Saturday nights. Sports and sitcoms illuminate the color TV. Lizards skitter down the screens on the porch, and alligators slither down the canal just beyond. Now and again someone will have a go at the organ, and Father Jim will sing in his tenor, "No more will I go all around the world,/For I have found my world in you!" There are 630 members of Henry's Hideaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Have a Drink, for Heaven's Sake | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next