Word: slights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends and lawyers, including George Bernard Shaw, pursues a case of criminal libel against Queensbury for the sake of Bosie, who sees the trial as a chance to get back at his mother. Bosie's stage presence is nearly perfect; with the walk of a public school boy and slight hints at effeminacy, Snyder successfully relates Bosie's demanding and selfish desire for Wilde's complete devotion...
...news conference held by the doctors who attended Cheney at the hospital. Alan Wasserman, president of the hospital's medical faculty associates, mentioned that Cheney's second blood test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose he was just passing on an innocuous test result. What he was actually offering was medical jargon that signifies a mild heart attack. Emphasis on mild--Cheney's episode qualified as a heart attack only under a stringent new definition adopted...
Behind the ring, a banner bears his name, and when he enters Gleason's Gym--a slight figure in baggy jeans and red leather jacket--the fighters pounding the bags stop to pay their respects. Here, under the Brooklyn Bridge, where so many legends trained, Zab Judah reigns as a local hero. Since turning pro at 18, he is 25-0. In his last bout, on the Mike Tyson undercard in October, he devastated his opponent with rapid-fire reflexes and a withering overhand left. He fights next in January; and before he gets too heavy for his weight class...
...thin stainless-steel stent into the artery to forcibly widen the passage. After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open. During this procedure the results from Cheney's second blood test became available. It showed a slight increase in the cardiac enzymes, indicating that Cheney had suffered a mild heart attack after...
...Slight, shy and unathletic as a child, MacCready turned to solitary hobbies. He collected butterfly and moth specimens, assembled model airplanes from kits, began designing his own planes and at 15 won several national model-airplane contests. He took flying lessons, soloed at age 16 and trained as a fighter pilot during World War II. He learned to soar as a glider pilot while at Yale and in 1956 became the first American to win the World Soaring Championship...