Word: switching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they could “swap for some new things.” Alas, our research on the patriarchal construction of “clothes” was useless. But that didn’t seem to throw off the visitors, who came in eager droves to switch their old for new, and who seemed pretty pleased with their findings. “Everyone here has good taste,” said Chen “Jennifer” Ding ’10, who is also a Crimson news writer, as she was trying on a slinky black number...
...sprinkling of cheddar cheese on his plate of soy beans, black beans, and pinto beans, backed off, jumping ship for vegetarianism. Months later, I’m now the only one in our dining club who has the pleasure of enjoying either fowl or four-legged friend.Why the sudden switch away from the comfort of swallowed creatures? Neither had rediscovered his dog-eared copy of Charlotte’s Web this summer. Both city-born kids decided to eschew real chewing because of the environmental damage caused by the transportation and raising of animals. Sitting at the meat-free table...
...Taking the Gloves Off Not until Clinton turned in a couple of unsteady debate performances of her own in October, after having dominated the forums up to that point, did it seem as though someone had thrown a switch in Obama. Suddenly for Obama, as Lincoln wrote of his own presidential aspirations in 1860, "the taste is in my mouth." Voters began to see that he really wanted the job he was campaigning for. "There's a certain joy to it that I see in him now," says his strategist David Axelrod. "I just sensed from that point on that...
...have cable,” said Ryan S. Nolan ’09. However, until Jack Bauer of Fox’s now-suspended “24” makes his comeback, it appears that many students are content to pull themselves off the couch and switch off the dial. “I don’t care that much,” said Peyton Shieh ’10. “There’s always YouTube...
...Post poll suggests that Obama could benefit from last-minute shifts in support: 34% of Iowa voters said he was their second choice, compared with only 15% for Clinton. Under the arcane rules of Iowa caucuses, that means Obama is more likely to pick up voters who can switch their support if their candidate falls short of the required 15% bar for votes...