Word: nash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grant an indulgence, plenary or perennial, To Ogden Nash on his centenary, or centennial. He trod 'mongst giants like Eliot and cummings and Thomas and Kazantzakis and Frost and Yevtushenko and Neruda and Schwartz (now all dead) In a day when poets were not only renowned but read. True, Nash did not quite roost in the exalted company of these Everest nest-dwellers, But he published more than 20 volumes of extremely popular light verse, and if he dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear...
...HARDY JR./TIMEPIX Writer Ogden Nash...
...additions are titi monkeys, a group of cat-size creatures that form humanlike families consisting of a pair of adults--which mate for life--and their offspring. One, Callicebus bernhardi, is named for Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a noted naturalist. The other is dubbed C. stephennashi, after Stephen Nash, a scientific illustrator...
Last fall Golden LEAF (Long-Term Economic Advancement Foundation), a nonprofit organization established by the North Carolina General Assembly to distribute half the state's settlement revenues, spent $15,000 for a tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
...write The Shield by L.A.'s Rampart police scandal. "At the same time," he says, "I was reading about all these politicians crowing about how crime was down. I drew the connection that maybe these guys were dirty but successful." Ryan, a veteran of CBS buddy-cop show Nash Bridges, hired another network-cop-series refugee as his lead: Michael Chiklis, who in ABC's The Commish was a cop as plump and sweet as a powdered doughnut. For The Shield, he shaved his head, hit the gym and gave TV's performance of the year as a Mr. Dirty...