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...Republican. If you saw two men standing side by side, one bearded and one clean-shaven, would you not, if asked which man belonged to which party, assume that the Democrat was the guy with whiskers? But surely these are stereotypes. Think of Robert Bork's ridiculous chin-strap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...problems started when he got there. Bobby's eldest son picked fights with his colleagues, who conspicuously left committee hearings when his turn came to speak. A female lawmaker recalled that when Joe noticed her fiddling with a bra strap during a caucus meeting, he leaned over and whispered, "You need any help with that?" His fits of temper drove staff members away, but they saw a vulnerable, insecure side as well. "There was this huge fear of failure. His mother fueled that a lot," recalls one. Ethel told Joe he would never be what his father was, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Kennedys | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Then strap the kids in and tell them to hang on and have fun. Chances are the worst thing that will happen is one of them will vomit on your shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Roller Coasters: Thrills, Chills and Few Spills | 6/26/2001 | See Source »

...both of their sakes, she stripped. In Sex and Zen II she played an evil spirit who sucks the energy from her victims. In one notable scene she makes lesbian-then-macho love (with a strap-on appendage) to heroine Loletta Lee, a 29-year-old actress who had sexed her way through much of the same fare. She was instantly noticed: half demonic, half nymph-gazing-through-the-eyes-of-the-worldly-whore. Wong Jing, at that time Hong Kong's most successful filmmaker, proclaimed that Shu Qi would one day be famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...catch a Harvard football game. We didn’t have our raccoon coats, but one of us had a military knapsack to hide the half-gallon of Mogan David during the game. Given a collective IQ of over 500 you would think we would know how to strap the knapsack tight. But no, we loaded our vino only to have it tumble out of the sack in the middle of the Wigglesworth entry onto Mass. Ave. and at the feet of President...

Author: By The CLASS Of, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Their Own Words | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

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