Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with corruption to the exclusion of other issues. They were angry last year when Wolfowitz suspended $1 billion worth of projects in Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Kenya because of corruption. The funding resumed after countries agreed to implement anti-graft safeguards - measures that Wolfowitz's critics called window dressing...
...overscheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that has 'Healthy Body Image' on the cover, and every two years you take up knitting for--a week." In a brilliant bonding scene, Tracy takes Liz to a strip club and says she could learn from the dancers: "They know the window of opportunity's only open for a moment." Liz stuffs a bill into a persistent stripper's stocking, protesting, "This is for computer classes...
...It’s really bad—there are jackhammers at 7 a.m.,” said Marco P. Basile ’08, a Lowell resident living in Claverly this year. “Right now there’s a wonderful crane right outside my window that I wake up to,” he added...
...stacking dishes on a high shelf give the same hard-to-pinpoint shoulder and upper-arm pain. Cuff patients start avoiding movements that make them exert force at a distance from their bodies; fanning a blanket out over a bed, putting a child in a car seat, opening a window. There are, of course, some devoted athletes, who first complain, as Mr. Rumsfeld did, that the pain and weakness is affecting their squash or tennis game...
...Harvard was already a narrow window of opportunity, and for many Currier House residents that window just got a little bit narrower. Some Currier residents returned to learn that their new Harvard-issued mattresses were thicker but also narrower. According to measurements performed by The Crimson, the mattresses are 33.5 inches wide compared to the more typical Harvard mattress which is 35 inches wide. They’re also 2.5 inches deeper. Yard Operations Manager of Administrative Operations Zachary M. Gingo confirmed in an e-mail that the mattresses are 1.5 inches narrower than the old ones...