Word: waywards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system has been installed to re-create a summer downpour. Ayckbourn has directed, as he did in Scarborough, and his players move as effortlessly as their roles-and their wayward craft-will allow...
...relations with many Jews or from elevating them to key positions. His prejudices would break forth in commands reflecting the emotion of the moment. I did not keep track of how often I was told to cut off all aid to Israel in retaliation for the actions of some wayward Jewish members of Congress; Senator Jacob Javits seemed to have a special ability to get under Nixon's skin...
...because he is concerned with the complacency of Harvard students. They're applying to Chase Manhattan and Morgan Stanley instead of marching around Harvard Yard is protest of South African apartheid. Some of these wayward souls have probably taken job offers, even though. "There are not that many people who--if they thought they had the choice--would reality want to work for Chase Manhattan or Morgan Stanley...
...Jackson is away," barked the TPA marshall. Bogart Jackson sauntered up to the ball, smiling at the memory of all the wayward three-irons he had hit on the practice range. Thwack, and Bogart Jackson was striding down the fairway, grinning at the knowledge that his characteristic fade placed him in an ideal position to go for the flagstick and had avoided the water on the right...
...prize money themselves. Similarly, when Yugoslav-born Ivo Pogorelich, 22, was eliminated before the last round of the recent Chopin competition in Warsaw, one judge, Pianist Martha Argerich, resigned in protest. The incident became a musical cause célèbre. Pogorelich's first U.S. record includes wayward but ultimately persuasive interpretations of the Chopin Funeral March sonata and six shorter pieces. Lightning tempos in some works, such as the C-sharp-minor Scherzo, display his formidable technique, while the slow E-flat Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2, allows the pianist to show off his ravishing, sensuous tone...