Search Details

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


Usage:

...serve as Premier at least until elections next October. For Golda Meir, the statement was an unusual admission of human frailty. Far more characteristic was her tart reply to those critics who murmured that she might be too old for the demanding task before her: "Seventy is not a sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ISRAEL'S NEW PREMIER | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Danny Troob's and John Forster's music is a splendid way to cover the script's sins. A good number of the songs sound the same, but it's a good sound and the repetitions are easy to forgive. Troob seems fascinated with a pattern of slow-lead-in, break into new, snappy meter, plant a long dance between the second and third verse. The best of them are straightforward satires--anemic Junior's self-discovery ("Number One and Only You") and a stay-away-from-sin number at the start of the Second Act ("You Can Be Celibate...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Bottoms Up | 3/4/1969 | See Source »

...police department against organized gambling and prostitution, which have been Gary's second-biggest industry for years. In the first half of 1968, police made 157 gambling arrests -more than five times the total for all of 1967. In one year, says Hatcher, the wide-open "sin town" of Gary has become "relatively closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: BLACK POWER IN OFFICE | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Inner Fire. A gangling 6 ft. 2 in., Williamson burns with incandescence and carries with him the smell of smoldering cordite. If he were not lit with inner fire, he would be sin gularly unprepossessing. Alan Brien, col umnist of the London Sunday Times, once described him as having "eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle tof fee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Member of the Company | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...already brisk sales of bank protection devices. At least 25 major companies make surveillance cameras and recorders that give instant replays. Noting that financial institutions have used similar devices and procedures for years, bankers question whether the federal act will reduce robberies. "It's like legislating against sin," says James B. Griffith, a vice president at California's 380-branch Security Pacific National Bank, which suffered 53 stickups last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Outdoing Bonnie and Clyde | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Previous | 457 | 458 | 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | Next