Search Details

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


Usage:

...course, today's students are largely the children of the adolescents and youth of the 1960s--told me that her parents have been rock-ribbed conservative Republicans all her life; and so she was astonished last summer to discover packed away in the basement of her home a rug into which was knit the visage of John F. Kennedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Awareness of Feelings | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...what about the people whose jobs are being sent overseas or across the border? I am not looking for a controlled economy, but one in which people have a choice and a chance to do their very best in a job without having to worry about having the rug yanked out from under them. DOUGLAS C. WAGNER Cedar Rapids, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEBATE OVER DOWNSIZING | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...second investigation, the Office of Investigations is looking into Northeast's license violations and the alleged harassment of Galatis and Betancourt. The intense public scrutiny their case has received will, Galatis says, "make it harder for them to sweep this one under the rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR WARRIORS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...than 35 years of party service in Congress. Yet as polling concludes in New Hampshire, Dole finds himself finishing second between two very different challengers in Pat Buchanan and Lamar Alexander. "All of a sudden, everything has been turned around," reports TIME's Tamala Edwards from New Hampshire. "The rug has clearly been pulled out from under Dole." Despite the Buchanan win, the real enemy for Dole may be Alexander. "A lot of the Dole campaign's energy has been focused on pushing Alexander out of the race. If they could do that on the national level, they could then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rug Pulled Out | 2/20/1996 | See Source »

...ceremony. They were kept away from television cameras and reporters. So tight was security that some were soon calling the conference "a boot camp run by Americans" and complaining that "life is really, really boring." But if the restrictions were deemed onerous, at least not everyone found the shag- rug-and-Formica decor so bad. "It's a bit like Motel 6," said Mohammed Sacirbey, Bosnia's Foreign Minister. "But I like Motel 6. 'Leave the light on.'" There were complaints about not being able to leave the base--although Milosevic was spotted Friday afternoon buying shoes in suburban Dayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | Next