Word: pour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a few years on the job--assuming you don't join a union--you will be allowed to drive the beverage cart. Keep both hands on the cart, don't try to pour and drive at the same time and, most importantly, wait until the limbs of sleeping passengers dangle in the aisles before you motor past...
Imagine yourself as a dining hall worker in the Union during the lunch-hour rush. Class lets out, and hundreds of freshman pour into the building, scrambling for a place in line, crowded together, bumping into one another, talking, shouting...
...Justice Department, reflecting concerns of U.S. intelligence agencies, believes that Gesell has imposed inadequate controls on North and that the fired National Security Council aide would be permitted to pour out secrets in the courtroom that are damaging to national security...
...every bit as unfair to the FBI, which pursued the case vigorously and effectively, as it is to Freedom Riders. But whose truth is it anyway? Every film -- or every biography or news report or memory -- is distorted, if only by one's perceptions. To create art is to pour fact into form; and sometimes the form shapes the facts. William Randolph Hearst never said "Rosebud," and Evita Peron didn't sing pop, and Richard III was probably a swell guy, no matter how Shakespeare libeled him. This is what artists do: shape ideas and grudges and emotions into words...
...Allen Lynch, deputy director of studies at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York City, argued that there is a craftiness to Gorbachev's handling of foreign aid. By allowing unrestrained Western aid to pour in, "he is showing his folks how things need to be done properly, how his people need to learn to run things well, how much they need to adapt for things to work as they should. In a way, he is deliberately exposing Western vs. Soviet efficiency." But, Lynch added, the earthquake is a "terrible drain" on Gorbachev's hopes...