Word: suppered
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...Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could sell the milk...
There was a second-rate band on the air, beating out popular tunes from a supper club. Suddenly the announcer broke in with a "flash" about Martian explosions hurtling towards earth. Then listeners were returned to "the music of Ramon Raquello and Star Dust." There was a second flash and a third, and soon some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with...
...columns a week plus his syndicated name-droppings, Miller teetotals through the nightspots until 4 a.m. On dull nights he prowls for crime stories, Winchell-fashion, in a black 1957 Chrysler equipped with three short-wave radios. By 5 a.m. he goes home for supper with his wife, a onetime singer named Cindy Stoker, sleeps for an average of four hours, then bangs out one of his columns...
...solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough for bus fare and supper money, but not enough to make the project a job"), often has to shoo them out of the lab at night...
...year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after a good supper...