Search Details

Word: windes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...have been swinging Obama's way. McCain tied Obama in the Gallup and Rasmussen Daily tracking polls early last week, but Obama has since opened up his widest leads of the race in both surveys, ahead by 8 and 6 percentage points, respectively. But even if most House Republicans wind up supporting the bill, the legislation is beginning to feel like the White Elephant every one is looking to give away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Bill That Nobody Likes | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard sailing team encountered both highs and lows in two regattas on a weekend that saw frequent rain and erratic wind. The dismal conditions caused the cancellation of the Boston University Invitational Regatta, as well as a disappointing ninth-place finish in the Hood Trophy at Tufts. The weekend was not without its successes, however, as women’s captain Megan Watson earner a fifth-place finish in the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship in New London, Conn., qualifying for the National Championship. NEW ENGLAND WOMEN’S SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIP With a knee injury...

Author: By Tony Bator, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weekend Regattas Cut Short By Weather | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...much that should be. Which still may not thwart all smokers. "If I'm going to get in trouble for smoking outside," Slippery Rock University senior Alex McGill told her campus newspaper, "I might as well just light up in class instead of going out in the wind and rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Smoking on Campus? Pennsylvania Smokers Fume | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...convention's black caucus, as "this guy that I know, this man that I married," before mischievously adding, "his cute self." Anyone who doubts her off-the-cuff charm should Google the clip in which she's giving an outdoor speech and her dress flies up in the wind. Deftly catching it, she tells the audience, "I don't mean to flash you guys ... I'm not going to be on YouTube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Michelle Obama Would Bring to the White House | 9/27/2008 | See Source »

...task of coaxing tape into adhering to damp stone. Magicians are called in with new tapes and new methods. Sometimes their efforts work; the dominant clans earn prominent viewing space. Other times the ritual is a complete failure, and magnificent banners of taped-together posters billow out into the wind before skittering, tumbleweed-like, across the pavement...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Postering in the Ethnographic Gaze | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | Next