Word: uncross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross their feet...
...another against "disrespectful" catnapping in court somehow combined in such a way that "one of the most venerable of English judges found himself, one hot summer afternoon, being tapped on the shoulder with a white club by a young military policeman and told to wake up, stay awake, and uncross his legs...
...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...
When from time to time a professional turns up with a lively interest in books as business, publishers uncross their legs and stare in bewilderment...
...came R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, big-nosed politico-industrialist from Texas. Said he: "Hoarders of available credit are little better than hoarders of currency. You are afraid of a recurrence of conditions through which we have just passed. ... I ask, is it not time that we uncross our fingers and follow the President's lead? ... No one wants banks to make loans of doubtful soundness, but the banker can, if he will do so, reconstruct most of his customers...