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...palate cleanser is that boyfriend whose quality is usually in some important way the opposite of the relationship that ended. So your husband was one of these demanding, angry type guys, and you got used to walking on eggshells. And amazingly, the next guy is really laid back. Or you had a sexually numb marriage and you haven't been in any kind of state of erotic awakening for longer than you can remember, and somewhere in there, your trainer starts to look good. It's someone who presents the aspect of the relationship that was an unmet need...
...assume that a 13-year-old who is guilty of a crime—no matter how grievous—will remain a criminal for the rest of his life. Confining a child to prison for the rest of his or her life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, a type of injustice that the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits. The cruelty of confining a child to a lifetime in prison is self-evident. Such sentences are also unusual, for the punishment does not fit the crime—especially when, as in the case of Joe Sullivan, the crime...
...that someone." After launching a successful texting service in the U.K., KGB decided to bring it to the U.S. The beta test launched last fall, and already the company has thousands of "agents" ready to provide you with anything from movie times and train schedules to the type of pen Bob Dole holds in his hand. (Answer: sometimes it's felt-tipped, sometimes ballpoint, and occasionally it's a pencil.) (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
...teeth of what could prove a real crisis, many Britons are remarkably insouciant, including London's remarkably insouciant mayor, Boris Johnson. Echoing a spokesman from the national rail operator who in 1991 told an incredulous interviewer that trains were not running because of the wrong "type of snow," Johnson said yesterday, "This is the right kind of snow - it's just the wrong kind of quantities. My message to the heavens is, 'You've put on a fantastic display of snow power, but that is probably quite enough...
...throw it in the air, then tie another. Another took to riding a pet lion to meet the mailman; yet another tried in vain to keep penguins in a walk-in freezer. One wrote Pablo Picasso asking to buy ten paintings; he didn't specify color or type, just the size of his wall. A Houston oilman's wife wrote to the Smithsonian to ask whether the Hope Diamond was for sale. Then there were the two oilmen who loved playing practical jokes on each other; the high point of their duel came when one took a European vacation...