Word: flashings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least a year everyone has been asking, and Actress-Singer Diahann Carroll and David Frost have been answering: "We don't believe in engagements-we believe in happiness." Last week in London, Diahann pulled off a glove to flash a ruby solitaire on her engagement finger. Naturally, reporters were on hand to ask the familiar question. "We are having a super time together," David said helpfully...
...some scientists), very low power consumption (much less than that needed even by a tiny flashlight bulb) and, like the transistor, a high resistance to shock and other abusive treatment. Most important of all, they can be easily assembled into miniature electronic displays that form numbers in a flash...
...read verse, write it, or both. The technique seems to be effective in both individual and group treatment, probably because serious poems usually touch on deep, universal emotions. According to Yale Psychiatrist Albert Rothenberg, a patient who suddenly deciphers the message of a great poet may experience a flash of understanding similar to the dramatic insight that can come to patients in ordinary psychotherapy. By writing an original poem, an inhibited, repressed person may tell his doctor much that was previously secret. Poetry, says Rothenberg, "is even more revelatory than dreams...
...property tax in recent months has become the flash point of the taxpayer rebellion. More than half the $36 billion collected by property taxes annually is earmarked specifically to pay local communities' share of education costs. But in many cities, towns and villages, property taxes also raise most of the revenues for the whole range of local government services...
...owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights earlier, can dig up the yards at any time for silver, coal, or even gravel. Other items in the property report that Southwest filed with HUD: "There are no provisions for street maintenance after 1975 . . . Flash floods may destroy portions of the streets in certain units...