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...done, and go from door to door, and then dance in the public square. You stay indoors, among your family. But I'm always fascinated by how people increasingly costume for Christmas. You get a Christmas sweater; you get earrings that are in the form of Christmas decorations; you wear a Santa hat. I think that's sort of a reaching out, saying "Let's make this a public holiday again...
...kept them on top and prosperous, kept the Shi'a and the Kurds in their place, and kept the Iranians from invading during the Iran-Iraq war. They may never look at Saddam as Saladin, the Muslim general who liberated Jerusalem in 1187. But when the rough edges do wear off, Sunnis will look at Saddam as a martyr...
...This didn't make sense. In the video, the corpses I had seen, unzipped from the U.S.-issue body bags, were wearing pajamas. Iraqis are conservative; they don't wear their nightgowns and pajamas outdoors. The corpses also had bullet wounds, not the kind of gaping tears caused by roadside bombs. Also, most of the damage filmed inside the houses looked like it was from bullets, not from shrapnel blown in from a streetside bomb. In other words, it seemed pretty clear that these Iraqis had been shot dead inside their houses, and that the Marines involved were lying...
...terms of talent, attention and prestige.They’re not, and we both know it.That’s why this exercise in re-naming is illogical, misleading, and downright insulting.We know who we are, and we’re okay with it. As a fan, I wear my I-AA school distinction as a badge of honor. I’m not exactly in the business of playing professional sports, so I’ll take the higher academic standards, more scholarly focus, and smaller class-size that usually comes with schools in the I-AA mold...
...most of the weekend:1. A coat or blanket. You may laugh now, but when you’re doing shots of some unidentified alcohol just to stay warm because you’re frozen to a stadium seat, you’ll wish you had thought to wear something under that hilariously snide tee shirt. Weather.com says it’s going to be 57 degrees at best on Saturday, somewhere between a heavy shirt and a jacket for most people, assuming it’s sunny.2. Your ID. Thanks to those charmingly-accented Boston police officers, you ain?...