Search Details

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


Usage:

...baptized a new Greatest Generation: "We need not look to the past for greatness," he said, "because it is before our very eyes." Our security is their life's work, he said, and peace is their legacy, and freedom their gift. To the great gray sea of soldiers that stood before him, the deaths were a hard reminder of the challenge of protecting all three at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...over 400. The most memorable were the ones that come in and have that feel for what the show has meant. I remember when Tracy Chapman came in, she was crying as she sang her song; she was just so overwhelmed by being there. Danny DeVito stood up on the steps so everybody could see him personally thank everybody for all the years that he loved watching the show. I mean, to watch Ray Charles come in and sing the alphabet; to watch Tony Bennett singing "Slimey to the Moon"; to sit there with Robert De Niro and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Clash: The Man Behind Elmo | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...more children's television programming these days than there's been before. At the beginning of children's programming it was Mr. Rogers, it was Sesame Street, Captain Kangaroo was still on - but that was really it. Now, it's everybody. But Sesame Street has always stood apart. The statistics of how many adults watch the show who don't have children is amazing. I got one letter from a husband and wife who said when they get home and they've had a bad day, they pop in the Best of Elmo video. The guy sent me the cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Clash: The Man Behind Elmo | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...that have stayed in the building over the past three years. "It's a world center of low-end globalization - not the globalization of Coca-Cola or Sony, but the globalization of Africa and South Asia," Mathews says. Ashekian, a Canadian citizen of South Asian descent, would not have stood out in the building's diverse crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Crime Writer Tackles a Real Hong Kong Cold Case | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...years, the Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the division between Eastern and Western Europe. So when East and West Berliners tore it down one night in November of 1989, it seemed as though this division would break down, too. Communist regimes throughout the region were replaced by democratically elected governments, and in 1991 even the mighty Soviet Union broke apart...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: And the Wall Came Tumblin’ Down | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | Next