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...Journal-American was busy informing its readers that "Brett Halsey hasn't heard a thing from his estranged wife, Luciana Paluzzi, since she sent him a terse cable informing him that she had a baby boy in Rome" (Louella Parsons), that "when enameled bathtubs and lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness" (Bert Bacharach), and, in a quick switch to weightier matters, that the Dominican Republic under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned...
...some point in her travels, culture began to rub off on Katya. She turned up at almost every performance of foreign artists in Moscow. Under Katya, cultural exchanges with the West have shot up sharply...
Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape off valuable wool. In later stages the animals get the shakes and staggers, so the French call the disease la tremblante. Last week veterinary researchers were engaged in a transatlantic argument over whether scrapie is hereditary or infectious, or-as would be scientifically most exciting-whether it has features of both. Medical investigators from New York to New Guinea were as keenly interested...
Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review one another's work, the friction of dry skin is almost audible as they rub their hands over a colleague's failure to sustain a thesis, his reliance on a wrong date, a superseded document or, better still, a bogus one. An expert on the receiving end of this kind of abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times...
...lived next door, "you knew Oscar had gone to bed." By this time Oscar had come to have a paternally protective feeling about a basketball, once chewed out a university publicity man for casually bouncing a ball on the pavement. "You'll ruin that ball. You'll rub off the grain and throw it off balance...