Search Details

Word: pricks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking in the Mirror | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

First man to prick the bubble of the Soviet claims was George W. A. Dick of Queen's University, Belfast: he charged that the Russian "vaccine" was actually a preparation perilously akin to live rabies virus; as a treatment, it did no good and was potentially dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Russians Recant | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Pish for thee, Iceland dog! Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Whiff of Grape | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...eulogy about himself in the Feb. 17 issue of TIME, will read farther-to the story on Anne Frank in the same issue. Perhaps her story, or that of the innocent millions like her who died in the inhuman, barbaric extermination chambers of the Hitler concentration camps, might prick his conscience-just a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Miss Lonelyhearts | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next