Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have three thousand six hundred seconds dissipate into thin air--well, things start to get a little suspicious. As we went to change our clocks this past weekend, it became necessary to ask ourselves the tough questions: Is it not unjust to deny precious seconds to a student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox...
...describing McCarthy's life, Kiernan interrupts her narrative constantly in order to quote, at length, dozens of witnesses who knew her. The technique represents a gamble; it has produced a monster of nearly a thousand pages. But it works...
...meantime, thousands of unpublished writers in the U.S. are turning to the Web, CD-ROMS and new devices such as the Rocket eBook as potential outlets for their work. While their experiences aren't as compelling as the King episode, a number of them are finding a place to be seen. Melisse Shapiro put her erotic thriller, Lip Service (under the pseudonym M.J. Rose), on the Web in 1998 after getting rejected by several publishers. "My goal was to get a couple of thousand readers and go back with a new novel to publishers and show them...
...Whatever his personal convictions, the pontiff remains the head of a massive, thousand-year-old global theological bureaucracy that isn't particularly prone to self-criticism or changes of direction. His millennial efforts to force the church to confront its failings - not only in respect to Jews, but also in relation to Muslims, Christians of other denominations and even sometimes its own flock - are the exception rather than the norm in papal history. But a specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex...
...Cairo rose in general insurrection. Napoleon bombarded al-Azhar, the city's largest mosque, then sacked it and allowed his troops to run amok, killing men, women and children in the streets. The bloom was off the liberation. Napoleon sought glory northward, marching toward Syria. He took Jaffa. Four thousand prisoners, who had been promised their lives, were marched before Napoleon's tent; he asked peevishly, "What am I supposed to do with them?" They were herded to the beach and slaughtered in the surf...