Word: southerns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course.Day 1 of competition wasn’t very kind to the Harvard golfers, as almost every member of the team shaved strokes from his first round total to his second. Pollak, who finished just six strokes behind the daily leader Patrick Schiel of Southern Illinois University—who shot 71—at 77 on Day 1, improved to par on Day 2, finishing seven strokes behind the daily leader, Schiel’s Southern Illinois teammate Todd Obergoenner, who shot a formiddable 65 on the day.“I think everyone just got used...
...Germans were gobsmacked. Who was this young upstart? Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg is a baron, the son of an aristocratic family in Franconia, in southern Germany. His family can trace its tree all the way back to the 12th century. Zu Guttenberg studied political science and law before entering politics and is married to 32 year-old Stephanie, the Countess of Bismarck-Schönhausen, a descendant of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck. (Read a TIME story on Otto von Bismarck...
...plans to play hardball. "I'm incredibly frustrated," says CAW president Ken Lewenza, adding that his union will not play by a new set of improvised rules. He also challenged LaSorda's assertion that Chrysler's operations in southern Ontario are uncompetitive. "They've always been very profitable, even in the toughest times," says Lewenza. Chrysler recently closed a minivan plant in St. Louis, and last week killed a third shift at its minivan plant in Windsor, Ont., throwing 1,200 people out of work. This suggests that even while minivan sales are sagging with the economy, the company...
...When you attend your 1.7 football games a year, you are probably delighted by the antics of the biggest bigot of them all—the faux John Harvard who prances around, flaunting his hatred of southern Europeans and their culture. He wants you to love him, but he doesn’t want you to think about how disgusted he is that there are Harvard students in the stands whose surnames end in vowels, and not vowels that are only sometimes vowels (so-called “weekend warrior” vowels), but work-a-day, knock-around vowels...
...China confrontation took place while the Impeccable was sailing 75 miles south of China's newest sub base, Yulin, at the southern tip of Hainan. The U.S. vessel carries sophisticated surveillance equipment that was in use - Chinese sailors used poles in an effort to snag the Impeccable's towed acoustic array sonars, which dangle beneath the vessel. The gear was most likely being used to try to detect the movements of Chinese subs in and out of Yulin, where Beijing's new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack subs have recently been spotted...