Search Details

Word: twos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Regan and his deputy Dennis Thomas, the new press spokesman Marlin Fitzwater and Pollster Richard Wirthlin. They regulate Reagan's energies, shape his moods, provide his information, schedule his forays beyond the comforting tranquillity of the Oval Office. They are not a formal body. Mostly they cluster in twos or threes, but they are always linked minute by minute through the phones. It is a singular power mechanism, twisted by its own internal stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Thousand and One Arrows | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...novel The Terrible Twos...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...gimme 19-ft., 9-in. three-point shot is no doubt partially responsible for the scoring surge, but turn all the Crimson's three-pointers into twos, and Harvard is still averaging 81.7 points per game, far up from the 60.7 Harvard managed last year...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Runnin' Crimson | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...truck stop in West Virginia. Drivers in twos, threes and fours are eating breakfast and talking routes and schedules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...days of siege began last Thursday with students drifting in ones and twos into the library. To the security guards on duty in the four-story former U.S. embassy building, everything seemed normal. A block away, police officers showed no concern when some other well-dressed young people began to collect in a passageway under the City Hall Plaza. Then, without warning, the youths rushed up from the passageway and began racing toward the building, flinging rocks and bottles at startled policemen. Surging inside, they joined the students already in the second-floor library and announced that they were taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea End of a Siege | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next