Word: tarring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lack of parental involvement limited to inner-city tenements or rural tar-paper shacks...
...Aiken said they first discovered theproblem late Wednesday but that they did not knowuntil news reports this weekend that Morris hadmasterminded the virus. "People were very angry,"said Assistant Professor of Computer Science MarkFriedell. "Before we knew it was Robert, we wouldhave gotten out a big pot of tar and somefeathers...
...Gibson limping out the grand home runs on a frayed leg injected with cortisone (in the spirit of the times, a steroid; "It's amazing what drugs can do," he said), or of National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti sniffing Dodger relief pitcher Jay Howell's glove for pine tar or caramel ("I felt there could be some amelioration by me," said Giamatti, sounding like Casey Stengel). But the memory is of Jefferies botching a bunt, booting a double play, running into a ball on the base paths, hitting .333 and looking like he wanted to stick his head...
...blow came against Jay Howell, making his first appearance since his suspension for using pine tar in the third game of the National League playoffs. It was the first home run Howell had given up to a right handed batter in 112 at-bats this season...
Goff died in 1982 at 78. The design was finished by his disciple Bart Prince, to whom the urban fabric of Los Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts pseudo-Aztec mosaic panels; its tower, which looked like a Hawaiian chief's headdress clapped on top of a random-rubble grotto, has been pruned; and the millions of little round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream...