Word: taile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...future of a non-tenured junior faculty member and an aspiring graduate student, urged them to save their own skins. Writing letters of retraction to the prestigious journals in which their work had appeared allowed plenty of leeway for casting in ferences and aspersions, and generally pinning the tail of a doomed career on the donkey (Rosenfeld). By immediately dropping all work on transfer factor, a controversial substance postulated in the 1950's for transfering immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another, Dressler and Potter might successfully sever themselves from the scandal...
...battle-piece theme in later paintings, the source of hundreds of battle pictures and painted disaster ep ics in the 18th and 19th centuries had been laid, even down to the kind of horses. Rubens' standard horse, a prancing, thick-barrelled animal with nervous fet locks, cascading tail, wild, rolling eyes and distended nostrils, was repeated by Géricault and Delacroix until it became the very symbol of the romantics' sense of organic energy. In portraiture, Rubens' sense of the grand manner and his way of putting figures convincingly within nature would deeply affect both Gainsborough...
...lively display of cocktail-party intelligence. Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it. Frank Langella turns out to be the drollest character onstage with his stubborn macho pride in the size of his tail...
...Crane had been the dominant figure in the city for years, no question about it," says current City Manager James L. Sullivan, rehired this year after serving three years at the tail-end of the Crane regime. "But he ceased to be the dominant figure when Joe DeGuiglielmo replaced Curry...
...aviation. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, he landed a job with Lockheed in the Depression year of 1933, largely on the basis of an impressive wind-tunnel analysis he had made of a model of a forthcoming Lockheed plane; the young graduate recommended a twin tail for the new all-metal, twin-engine Electra, Lockheed's first successful passenger plane (Neville Chamberlain used it to fly home from Munich). Reason: a single rudder offered inadequate control if an engine conked...