Word: threading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mona who hits the skids. She soon turns up doing the tango in a purple brocade dress, and next time Stephen sees her she is an expectant mother whose life hangs on a delicate thread of Catholic dogma. To save Mona, doctors ask permission to perform a fetal craniotomy, crushing the infant's head. Fermoyle refuses, Mona dies in childbirth, and the baby grows up into a happy, well-adjusted niece, so that takes care of that...
Pennsylvania's narrow field may crimp the varsity's passing game, since outsiders, insiders, and defenders will have little room to roam. "We will really have to thread the needle," commented Munro...
...Show (CBS) is an awesome disappointment. Her voice is a scraping vestige of itself, and her producers have made her seem an interloper on her own set. More happily, The Danny Kaye Show (also CBS) has been a thorough delight and need only be maintained. There is no thematic thread-just Danny Kaye, pronouncing Los Angeles in approximate Castilian ("Loth Antheleth") or changing My Fair Lady lyrics into baseball songs like Why Can't a Woman Be More Like...
...Cover) The husky, ruddy-faced man looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
...green-blue light. But this is not pure laser light. It is merely ordinary mixed-up light of varying frequencies. When the current passes a critical strength (120 amp. per sq. cm.), though, the light brightens enormously, turns intense blue, and forms an undiverging beam like a tight-stretched thread...