Word: zig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first of Sweet’s goals, she took a pass from Johnston and zig-zagged in front of the net before beating McDonald with a backhander to push the lead to 2-0. Eight minutes later, Johnston took on three defenders before flicking the puck on net. The rebound kicked out to a charging Sweet for the easy follow...
...Guys aren’t quite sure whether to zig or zag,” said Giovacchini, who ran the point well in the first half and finished with a game high six assists. “We had a few back cuts [passes] that didn’t get through, and a few overplays where they ended up stealing the ball...
...move markets and cause interest rates to spike. Many bond traders are like Brian Edmonds, head of Treasury-bond trading for Banc of America Securities. Blond, trim and a former Harvard lacrosse player, he sits at his desk all day interpreting economic data and trying to predict what the zig-zagging numbers might mean for the market. When claims for unemployment benefits ticked higher last Thursday, it suggested weakness in the economy. Investors promptly bid up bond prices. But Edmonds saw hidden strength in the news. He sold $100 million of T-bonds, just before the market reversed and proved...
...PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—As I walked down the Griboedova Canal a few days ago, I gazed at the onion domes of the Church on Spilled Blood. The zig-zagging blues and stripes of gold on its seven cupolas glimmered in the sun, and no matter how many times I walk down Griboedova, their brilliance never fails to grab my attention. The domes, and the church they adorn, were built over the spot where leftist terrorists assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and have glimmered ever since as brilliant reminders of the old tsars in a city already filled with...
DIED. RONALD ZIEGLER, 63, President Nixon's defiant, clueless press aide during the Watergate scandal; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif. Ziegler was only 29 when Richard Nixon sent him to manage the hostilities in the White House press room. "Ron Zig-liar," some reporters called him, but the lies Ziegler told were mostly the President's, given that he didn't really know what was going on in the White House. When Nixon packed himself off to exile in 1974, Ziegler went with him. It was as if he didn't know what else...