Search Details

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


Usage:

...makes about $32,000 a year. "I could be making more money in the valley," he says. "But what else could I want? I think I'm just a hick at heart." Says an ancient patient, with an approving smirk: "The Doc is busier than a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: New Doc on the Hill | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Sophisticated debate also rages over whether to enact a cat-leash ordinance. George Welles, editor of the tiny Los Al amos Monitor, routinely gets letters correcting spelling and punctuation errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk taker," but it was his first flight on that particular polar route. One theory was that he may have been battered by a sudden "cat"-a burst of vicious clear-air turbulence. Others speculated that Collins might have been the victim of the most treacherous hazard in polar flying: a "whiteout," when blowing snow can cause even the most experienced pilots to lose all sense of perspective and direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Tour to a Snowy Death | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...finished, and then yips five times like an anxious puppy when it is left turned on and unattended. Twenty-four glorious buttons on its carapace accomplish the programming. An eight-year-old achieves something impressive when he plans a complicated route under the dining room table to attack the cat and then translates his intentions into an orderly series of commands for the versatile machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...miss it sometimes, yes, especially when I'm on the road a lot, then whenever I go back to California I usually visit friends who have families and this way I get a feeling a little bit of that kind of family life--the dog, the cat, the children around screaming, this and that...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

First | Previous | 455 | 456 | 457 | 458 | 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | Next | Last