Search Details

Word: windsors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When Donald Burr was in high school, he told everyone he wanted to become a clergyman. Growing up in the 1950s in the tidy town of South Windsor, Conn., the boy saw his local Congregational church as the most admirable kind of organization. It was free and feisty, yet disciplined in its work. Burr instead embarked on a career that led him to found a free and feisty airline, People Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Yankee Preacher in the Pilot's Seat | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...close ranks against Libya's Gaddafi 28 Increasingly determined to act against terrorism, West European countries start kicking out Libyan diplomats and students. Kurt Waldheim's wartime record dogs him into the closing days of the Austrian presidential campaign. South Africa rescinds pass laws for blacks. The Duchess of Windsor, the American who won a British King's love and cost him his throne, dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents, May 5 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Clifford can't rest on his laurels. While Symbian has excelled in the market for business users, it has not done as well with consumer phones, notes Ovum analyst Tony Cripps in London. And Microsoft is gaining ground, according to Nomura security analyst Richard Windsor, who predicts 25.8 million Microsoft users by 2007, behind Symbian's 54.3 million. Clifford, 45, is fazed less by Microsoft and by other mobile operating systems like Linux and Palmsource's PalmOS than by another force: his target customers. If he can get more handset vendors to adopt Symbian technology and can persuade his existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Smart | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...been wearing white or something awfully close to it. White is worn to symbolize purity. And Camilla's broad-brimmed hat looked like a lampshade. I don't mean to be critical, it's just the truth. Joy D. Koch Taytay, the Philippines The Duke of Windsor's marriage to Wallis Simpson in 1937 lent a certain acceptance to marrying a divorced woman, and no doubt many copycat marriages followed, some of them less than successful. It is noteworthy that most subsequent photos of the Duke showed a sad man. Now Prince Charles' marriage to Camilla has given cachet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

...Duke of Windsor's marriage to Wallis Simpson in 1937 lent a certain acceptance to marrying a divorced woman, and no doubt many copycat marriages followed, some of them less than successful. It is noteworthy that most subsequent photos of the duke showed a sad man. Now Prince Charles' marriage to Camilla has given cachet to marrying one's mistress and could lead to a rash of copycat marriages, some of which will be less than successful. Let's see whether Charles' future photos reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 2005 | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Next