Search Details

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


Usage:

...Madame Absalom, who kept the yarn shop, avidly scanned the local press of Clermont-Ferrand every day "in gleeful anticipation of the demise of her 'ex,' as she called him. . . ." He suffered from rheumatism and a facial tic which she could imitate to perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi, tic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, HORRORS OF WAR: To the Last Bounce | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson to a 10 to 10 tic...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: SCRIBE BOOSTS CRIMSON FOR ROSE BOWL GAME | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

...handled me they haven't gotten me so much as an Elks' smoker. NOT ONE DATE! I don't want to know from agents." On men: "I like my men on the monster side. A snarling mouth, evil eye, broken nose . . . thick ears. ... A nervous tic excites me and if with all these things he wore green suits-BANK NIGHT!" On her career: "I've been held over for another week. Broke all records, they tell me. (As if I didn't case the house myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Publicity | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Horia Sima, leader of Rumania's Nazis-tic Iron Guard, last week made a public speech accusing Hungarians of butchering 447 Rumanians in North Transylvania, of cutting out tongues, burning, torturing. The limit, said Guardsman Sima, had been reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Instructors in the Balkans | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

First | Previous | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | Next | Last