Word: rung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forward to seeing Tweels on our cars as they zoom down the road. Akshay Mor Bangalore, India Your list of inventions left me yawning. There weren't any great breakthroughs to dazzle the imagination or inspire hope, or new products that promise to move civilization to its next evolutionary rung. Many of the items were trivial, or mere improvements on things already available. It's not Time's fault that the year didn't see the introduction of something fantastic. From the standpoint of new technology, it was a very dull year. Lou Varricchio Middlebury, Vermont, U.S. Iraq, Past...
...Your list of inventions left me yawning. There weren't any great breakthroughs to dazzle the imagination or inspire hope, or new products that promise to move civilization to its next evolutionary rung. Many of the items were trivial or mere improvements on things already available. It's not TIME's fault that the year didn't see the introduction of something fantastic. From the standpoint of new technology, it was a very dull year. Lou Varricchio Middlebury, Vermont...
...home, back to L.A. My parents were thrilled to see me,” Eric says, his voice saturated with sarcasm. “I had to get that job, so in a stroke of creativity I went to the local Home Depot and signed up for the lowest-rung position they had.” The work Eric undertook was anything but glamorous. “When the toilet overflowed in the bathroom, they’d send me to mop up the shit...
...rejoicing as Harvard threw Handsome Dan a bone in the form of a 21-3 lead and letting him glimpse what it feels like to be a success. But as all the optimistic little Yale graduates will learn when they enter the real world, Harvard will always be one rung above. And then Yale’s lead burned into oblivion, not unlike the Sterno-lit tablecloth at the Branford College tailgate. After letting Yale have their pity points, Harvard regained its composure—it’s hard to beat a team over and over again without feeling...
DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean...