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...liberal substitution and an unfamiliar lineup led to a dry spell that lasted nearly five minutes...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Rights Ship by Blowing Out the Bobcats | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...cheerfully admits she's only a temporary fairy. She can use her wand to make herself disappear (by pushing the light switch) and can use fairy dust (a.k.a. sugar) to turn oatmeal into cake. But trickier feats, like turning her bath water into strawberry Jell-O or casting a spell so that her dog floats on the ceiling, she realizes, are reserved for permanent fairies, who go to advanced school and must pass a lot of tests. Alice is still at a level in which she suffers setbacks like accidentally turning her white dress into a red one (spilled juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gift Bag of Children's Books | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...where does all this activity leave the Democratic Party? In his Times Magazine piece, Bai speculated that the combination of MoveOn’s small donor Internet outreach and the emergence of a big-donor backed progressive extra-party infrastructure could spell curtains for the party as we know...

Author: By Sasha Post, THE PROGRESSIVE | Title: Democratic Decisions | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

More than 40 years after Ankara and the European Union first discussed Turkish membership, E.U. leaders meet this week in Brussels to vote on whether to open accession talks next year. Roadblocks remain: France and Austria insist the summit statement should spell out a "privileged partnership" or lesser union if Turkey fails to make adequate progress in legal and economic reforms. Tiny Cyprus threatened to veto the talks if Ankara failed to give de facto recognition to the Greek part of the island state. Turkey complains that the invitation is "discriminatory" because it makes demands not made of previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lukewarm Invitation | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...front page of the wittily titled www.harvardsucks.org. 20 Elis wearing “Harvard Pep Squad” t-shirts and claiming that they lived in “HoPfo” passed out 1800 pieces of paper to the home crowd, assuring the Harvard fans that they would spell out “GO HARVARD.” The fans, most of whom gave considerably less than a rat’s ass about the Pep Squad’s project, dutifully held up their signs for all the time it took to realize the greatest ambition...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale's Brief Shining Moment | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

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