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Back in 1867, William Whitaker was just one of many well-bred Bostonians building a luxurious town house in a neighborhood straight out of Victorian England. Today, with their mansard roofs, double front doors, bay windows and rear gardens, these South End buildings are preserved by landmark rules. Some have been reclaimed as single-family houses, others are apartments, but the 21st century Whitaker House is a bed-and-breakfast owned by Martin Gottlieb and John Collette...
...spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick swat to the rear-end is hardly analogous to the horrors of beating a child. Fair-minded people can disagree on this - as long as we?re actually talking about a quick swat, rather than a "let?s you, me and my belt go out behind the woodshed, son" scenario...
...plane. "He just went ballistic," says Christy Gipson, who was sitting in front of him. Passengers heard him yelling, "I can fly this plane!" as he rushed up the aisle. "We've got to open the door!" After he had been subdued, an off-duty police officer in the rear of the plane offered to help. A row of seats was cleared so the officer and another man could guard Burton during the plane's landing. But as Burton was being led to the back, he flailed his arms, pushed his captors aside and struck the off-duty officer...
People sang this with great gusto, even the swells down front in the $60 seats. They sang verses denouncing the East Coast liberal aristocracy (which rhymes with Washington, D.C.) and "We'll take them out of first class and with a mighty cheer/ We'll send them to the rear" and a verse about Bush and Gore ("We'll make them work the night shift in a 7-Eleven store/ And let them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres...
Being superhuman, Alba says, can be a pain in the rear end. The other day, she hung for several hours from a building in a harness, sitting on two grips' heads between takes while the crew fiddled with the camera angles. She spent another marathon session hanging from a bar above the set, praying her hands didn't go numb before she dropped--"'catlike,' the director said"--into the frame. "'Then,' he said, 'You just glide over to the door.' I've never done this before! Dropping 6 ft. and not falling on my butt is an accomplishment...