Search Details

Word: twos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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 »

...thing that made a large difference in the shape of their trade-offs was the lack of a community of like-minded peers facing similar situations and conflicts. Moving into the world, by ones or twos, they had to start from scratch. The political convictions of many, though without the same intensity of political practice, survived; for others, these convictions were not strong enough to weather the pressures of the American Dream; in short, there are some who sold...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Idealists meet the real world | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...play if there was no chance to win." Or maybe it is time for him "to swim to Japan." With Rose on the bench even for a day, it seemed odd to think that a World Series was going on, the composite classic where even the managers came in twos and threes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

When the first scene opens the group's leaders Steve (Carlos LaPuerta) and Zola (Nicole Galland) are fitfully glancing at their watches wondering if anyone will show up at their inaugural meeting of N.E.P. Character introductions are natural as the new members file into the room in ones and twos. Group encounter style they introduce themselves giving the audience a chance to size them...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Radical Chic | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next