Search Details

Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Stockdale Quayle Gore Violations Why were you there? Over time: 6. Reprimands: 5. Over time:3. Reprimands: 1. Hand Motions Nervously gripped pen with both hands, put glasses on and off, paced offstage and turned off hearing aid. Stiff-arm point, straight-arm point, half-point, finger point, half-arm with finger point, pen point. Fist, open hand, motion right, motion left with both hands, and repeat. Clothes Navy suit, blue tie with pointy designs in white/red. Navy suit, red tie with big paisleys. Blue suit with maroon based tie with moderate sized blue/green stripes. Personal References ."A new baby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEBATE SCORECARD | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

...quick to recognize the other breakaway republics, including Croatia, whose regime discriminates against local Serbs. But the Community stiff-armed Macedonia. Why? Because Greece objects to the name and exercised a veto in the councils of the E.C. Macedonia is the birthplace of Alexander the Great and the name of Greece's northern province. Therefore Athens thinks it has a 2,400-year-old trademark on the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Greece's Defense Seems Just Silly | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...sympathize with anyone who each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magistrate of Morals | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...Liberation Organization, which as a group endorses the talks and guides the actions of the Palestinian negotiators. More surprising still was the presence of two Muslim fundamentalist organizations, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Up to now, these groups and the secular P.L.O. factions have held one another at a stiff arm's length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wet-Clay Protest | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...KNEW SOMETHING HAD TO give when George Bush started arguing with a 6- ft.chicken. For nearly a month, the President's men had been stiff-arming the dates and format proposed by a bipartisan debate commission and endorsed by Bill Clinton. The challenger was scoring political points by declaring that his opponent was afraid to face him man-to-man. Bush's charges of tax-and- spend liberalism, like his aggressive attacks on Clinton's draft record, were unable to dent the Democrat's double-digit lead in the polls. But when the Clinton forces began infiltrating Bush rallies with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Ring Political Circus | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next