Word: sew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a 14-13 victory over Princeton to its credit, the Crimson can sew up the Big Three Championship with a win over Yale. The title has not rested in Cambridge in recent years. The Crimson last...
However, the foil men rebounded to grab two victories, as Valentine and Dave Fichter kept the Crimson alive. The epee squad needed one win in three bouts to sew up the triumph, Ken Bartels opened epee action by losing, and he was followed by White, who dropped another close 5-4 decision. It all came down to Tatrallyay in the last bout, and Geza sent the Crimson home happy...
...billion worth of the metal is secreted by French hoarders in socks, crockery, mattresses and vaults-more than is held by the Bank of France. Frenchmen buy gold jewelry, pile up gold ingots and collect gold coins-Louis d'or, English sovereigns, American eagles, Swiss Helvetias. They sew gold in their belts when they march off to war. "I invested my first wages in gold in 1949," says one 40-year-old divorcee, recounting a typical French experience. She has been a hoarder ever since, and when she goes on vacation her gold goes with...
Surgeons have something in common with auto mechanics and TV repairmen, since all are devoted to curing ills that baffle the amateur. But the men who cut and patch and sew the human heart inspire awe even among cynics, precisely because they are working at the beating heart of life. That sense of awe and vulnerability lends Thompson's work a special source of drama...
President then further tangled the textile situation by mixing it up with international politics. He decided to submit to the Senate a treaty returning Okinawa to Japan, rather than handing it back by administrative action as he had led Tokyo to expect. If the Southern textile bloc can sew up 34 Senate votes, it can defeat the treaty. Okinawa is such an emotional issue in Japan that a defeat could topple Prime Minister Sato's government...