Search Details

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


Usage:

...outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what it is, obviously and manifestly, is a gerrymander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snakes Or Ladders! | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...Business School is a snake pit. I hated it," he says. "The first year in Business School was the worst year of my life...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Brooks Comes Full Circle | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...make the multiplier/divider work, we needed to build an adder--not of the snake variety--since both multiplication and division, are in essence repeated additions (or subtractions). We also needed to construct several registers that store data and the pain-in-the-neck control unit, which instructs the rest of the chip what to do at each stage...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 5/21/1993 | See Source »

...child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies out of The Snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florid Fiction, Bruising Fact | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...SNAKE: Everyone's friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Feb 15, 1993 | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Previous | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | Next