Word: sown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sixtysomething football coach has the gruffgrumpy-old-man-vote sown up. He's got the gumption to say what he thinks...
...disdain for politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...
...intellectual seeds for this technological renaissance were sown more than a decade ago, when Angel and a handful of other pioneers began contemplating the challenge of building more powerful telescopes. Very quickly, they were forced to consider radical new approaches to mirror design. Simply scaling up old models would have been hopelessly expensive and unwieldy. "A large mirror can't look like a small mirror," explains Angel, "for pretty much the same reason that an elephant can't look like a fly. If it did, its legs would collapse under its own weight...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks, still on ice at Wistar, for HIV-like viruses. Wistar officials last week said they would form a committee "to evaluate the Rolling Stone speculations." Meanwhile, there is no reason to worry about standard polio vaccines: they are rigorously screened for contamination...
...raising galas where she spoke mesmerizingly about her life. Her father became a regular player in these little monologues as she summoned up her childhood self riding beside him in the buggy while he made his rounds. Perhaps it was then that the seeds of an artistic revolution were sown, that the secret lies in an indomitable commitment to honesty in motion...