Word: wayward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly so imposing a figure in person as the legendary New Yorker columnist (Sokolov sports 170 lbs. tops to Liebling's lifetime high of 256 lbs.), Sokolov's meticulous research techniques--the residue of a Harvard education?--and his flowing prose more than rise to the occasion of Wayward Reporter, a biography of Liebling...
...kind of writing, journalistic and non-journalistic, in his list of accomplishments. He reviewed restaurants; covered boxing matches, great and small; witnessed D-Day and the liberation of Paris as a war correspondent; cranked out short story collections and novellas; and critiqued the state of American journalism in his "Wayward Press" column for years. One of the most prolific and versatile writers of the century, Liebling died frustrated, having failed to write a Great American Novel, a ghost he pursued all his life. He wanted to write a significant novel to legitimize his writing career, much as he always wanted...
...nine-play, 70-yd. drive that culminated with St. John hitting running back Jim Callinan in the endzone. Before the half expired, the Crimson defense buckled down on an impenetrable goal line stand which started with Yale at first and goal on the four, and Peter Coppinger intercepted a wayward Rogan pass. Yale was unconscious at the half, the score...
...nine-play, 70-yd. drive that culminated with St. John hitting running back Jim Callinan in the endzone. Before the half expired, the Crimson defense buckled down on an impenetrable goal line stand which started with Yale at first and goal on the four, and Peter Coppinger intercepted a wayward Rogan pass. Yale was unconscious at the half, the score...
...morning and saw that this second law of thermodynamics could be applied to absolutely everything, and proceeded--with the assistance of disciple Ted Howard--to enshrine his thoughts in a reasonably priced hardcover. Descartes watched a fly crawl across his ceiling, and invented mathematics; Newton got bruised by a wayward apple and theorized gravity; only history will tell us how it all came to Rifkin...