Word: waited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...based on gender first became illegal]," says UCLA harassment-law expert Eugene Volokh, "if you told a member of Congress, 'If you vote to bar discrimination based on sex, you will prohibit employees from putting pictures of their wives in bikinis on their desks,' most legislators would have said, 'Wait a minute, where does it say that...
...films When Worlds Collide and On the Beach) emphasizes the human drama on Earth. This is Hollywood, remember: the real-life asteroid is a mile wide; in Armageddon it's the size of Texas. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "We always do things bigger." And faster; you needn't wait till 2028 for these big bangs...
Still, South Park can be inspired, and not only on account of its vibrant vulgarity. It has subtle touches too, like the traffic sign that looms above the boys as they wait for the school bus at the beginning of most episodes. The sign, one of those iconic warnings to drivers that children are at play, shows a little girl and boy running hand in hand. This is the kind of vernacular image that Parker and Stone, like so many visual artists, love to use, and here it quietly sounds the notes of childhood and danger, two subjects...
...those kiosks in the Science Center lobby and in Loker Commons have arrived in the past few years," Lewis wrote. "People need to check e-mail between classes and cannot stand to wait till they get back to their rooms...
Spring break will be soon upon us and I cannot wait. By the time you read this, I will be zooming my way to a better place, gliding silently over the landscape to where the air is sweeter, the food tastes better, the work seems less daunting, the alarm clocks are not pressing and the rooms are bathed in light. OK, perhaps some of these claims simply reflect the misty-eyed longings of a college student more than ready to bolt out of here for a week, but one thing is for certain--at home things look better because...