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...there is no more. Some saw hope in the 2000 election, hope that either candidate would offer strong cartoon potential (I'm not including Nader, who finds anvils "unsafe"). But I was not optimistic. We wince when we see these men fall. We fear for them. Strap Acme rocket shoes to Bush, and you'll spend months cleaning up the mess. No, the irony of Bill Clinton is that he may have felt our pain, but we didn't feel his. We just listened joyously for which funny sound he'd make as he bounced happily off the canyon floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Miss About Bill Clinton | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

PORN FREE A word of caution to rocket scientists who still think it's cool to e-mail nudie pics to the guys at work: watch out for PORNSweeper. This menacingly named software scans image files on company servers, looking for such clues as a suspicious abundance of pink pixels. It even measures the ratio of skin color to other colors to estimate how much clothing the image contains. The software, which developer Content Technologies markets to corporate technology departments, also includes "face detection," so close-ups won't be mistaken for pinups. Still, you may want to refrain from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jan. 8, 2001 | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson scored its third goal in a row early in the third. Hagerman was assisted by Botterill and shot a rocket past Puputti to make the score...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UMD Sweeps Harvard | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...SIMS It's the Game of Life for the millennium. You control a family of suburbanites. You go to work, you cook dinner, you mow the lawn--no aliens, no spaceships, no rocket launchers. How do you win? You don't--you just try to stay happy. Kind of like real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cybertech: Cybertech | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...bono work. Counter-argument: Santa could be the Rupert Murdoch cross Willie Wonka of toy sellers: a big-hearted tyrant tycoon with his own slave-race. 3) The Flying Reindeer Problem: Reindeer don't usually fly. Counter-Argument: The sleigh itself could run on some sort of solid fuel rocket that pushes the passive reindeer (rocket power being the only other possible means of movement other than whatever made...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Christmas Lie | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

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