Word: yearning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...busy cooking." Smiley, who teaches at Iowa State University, is a believer in the radical agriculture movement. But she sees an inescapable link between the exploitation of land and that of women, and here she parts company with farm reformers like Wendell Berry as well as nostalgia buffs who yearn for the smaller-scaled, prechemical days...
...times like these, I yearn for a princely fortune in order not to bequeath it to my alma mater. Sanford Gifford...
...this contention may make some citizens yearn for the earlier days of this century when the Senate Judiciary Committee was more deferential to the President's choices. One bipartisan panel even concluded in 1988 that the confirmation system had become so "dangerously close to looking like the electoral process" that candidates should not have to testify...
Amid all this glittering change, some still yearn for grand old bikes with big fenders and coaster brakes. In Manhattan earlier this summer, an elegantly dressed woman strolled into a bike shop and bought a $1,500 replica of a green-and-white '50s-era Schwinn Columbia to hang over her living room couch...
Cuba is a nation of young people. Nearly 60% of the island's 10.7 million people were born after Castro came to power in 1959. They have known only socialism. They are the healthiest and best-educated younger class in Latin America, but they are greedy for more. They yearn for capitalist fare like jeans and jogging shoes, rap records and videocassettes. They have had their fill of rhetoric and bureaucracy, of long lines for buses and hamburguesas, the Cuban version of an American favorite, made with pork. The most visible rebels, known as los freekiss (freakies), hang...