| 单词 | totter |
| 例句 | The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamb spilled from her grasp and tottered around the grass, bleating for...what? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I tottered in the aisle, desperate to preserve my balance—and my dignity—as well as a grip on my bags and my cat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, the dog’s growls ceased — it tottered on its paws and fell to its knees, then it slumped to the ground, fast asleep. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I tottered to the edge of his bed, pulled my legs up next to his, and leaned my head back against his shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But nobody paid any attention to him, and finally he poured himself a drink and tottered back up the stairs with it, in his bare feet, to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It tottered, then collapsed in a flaring sheet of flame and sparks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her, but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “I am come down to see your third strata,” he said, tottering and wincing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But then everything came unstuck and Emma wrenched her arms away and Golan began to totter backward, and he stumbled and sat heavily on the rail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Nan stumbles to her feet and takes one tottering step toward the Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Who knew better than I on what a precarious, tottering house of cards my whole life rested?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He circled the ground, then tottered over to a small anthill beside a log. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then, in the silence, Bigwig lurched to his feet, swayed a moment, tottered a few steps toward Fiver and fell again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He tottered to the fire with Anya and stripped off his coat to be closer to the flames. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Don’t look down,” advised Milo as the bug tottered upward on unsteady legs. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The ringing comes harsh and loud, making me totter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Belet slid across the floor and clasped the tub as it tottered on the ledge. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And then, uncertainly at first, then with increasing speed and confidence, the boy tottered up the hill. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He was a slow, tottering little thing, but Roz was rarely in a hurry, and together they loved meandering along the forest paths and around the banks of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Dr. Blankenship called after them as they tottered away with Lydia perched on the crossbar. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, as if some force were at work other than his own will, he began to hurry, tottering forward, his groping hands held out, his head lolling from side to side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Miss Miss tottered slightly on her wheels and at last came to a stop near the end of the runway, where she sat, waiting, like some ancient idol. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The father groped his way tottering to his chair and let himself fall in it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The workers watched with interest as the lifters tottered back and forth under their burden. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An Yi’s grandmother was short and skinny, and she tottered on her bound feet. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We tottered, her lips brushing mine as we wavered there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was that England was “tottering to her fall,” that her economy was collapsing and “she must soon be a bankrupt and unable to maintain her naval superiority.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A moment later, Miss Peregrine came tottering out, dizzy after spending so long in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The companions led their horses to the side of the hill where a low, dilapidated building tottered shakily on the turf. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Cousin Eunice replaced her glasses and pushed herself up from the table, tottering a little in her high heels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman onstage has tottered on stilts fashioned from empty cans of Slim-Fast. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Constance came tottering after her, struggling to keep up as Kate rounded the classroom building and charged onto the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He tottered to the base of the bluff and fell over. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The TV tottered for a moment, then plunged with a crash to the floor. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Eva, who had continued to carefully take apart each doll to remove a smaller one from inside, finally removed the tiniest doll, and tottered over to Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When she moved slightly, the great muscles of her nether cheeks rippled to life to prevent the stool from leaning and tottering even an inch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Isn't he a singer still today?—and they stand, they calm, and with him they sing out against the tottering of their giant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam Marsh clamped a handkerchief to her mouth and tottered down the steps. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The old woman had tottered out of the house, weeping and screaming. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Little figures black against the snow and the fire came tottering or running from it, and witches flew down to help drag them away from the flames. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Werfel and Spurge tottered for a minute, screamed, and then fell. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Vatete's husband glanced at the wasted girl as she tottered to a log and sat down. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They tottered over the pasture to the woodland beyond and lay completely exhausted on flat, bare ground under fir trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He tottered off unsteadily in the direction of the dormitory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The wall began to totter, then the top third crumbled into the aisle next door where Ron stood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the background, Lexie and Trip babbled and tottered, and it became easier, after a while, to simply avoid it all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We could of set up a .50-caliber machine gun and shot the old geezers as they tottered out,” Shorty grinned, touching a match—arrogantly lit on his fly zipper—to the end of his cigar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She totters over to the bed, touches the comb, then pulls it from Charlotte's hair and squeezes it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But that night she was like the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child, who of a sudden realizes its powers, and walks for the first time alone, boldly and with overconfidence. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Now,” he removed a tottering pile of papers from an armchair and sat down, his Wellingtoned legs crossed, “how may I help you, Mr. Potter?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In front of him totters a German officer in field dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “See you in a moment, then,” said Hermione nervously, and she tottered off down the steps to LADIES. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In Mercerism, an absolute evil plucked at the threadbare cloak of the tottering, ascending old man, but it was never clear who or what this evil presence was. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She watched as an elderly couple in matching pastel shirts and Bermuda shorts tottered through a nearby garden. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Stranded in the wet desert of the Amazon, the culture struggled to gain its footing, tottered a few steps, and died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She set her on the floor, where she tottered about unsteadily. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He threw the club away and tottered back to his stool. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On my new crutches, I tottered down the hall. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The first time I saw his triangular form teetering and tottering about the zoo, I was shy to approach him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, she tottered on his arm, rising faintly over his line of vision, in a pair of suede three-inch leopard-print pumps. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the river, you might see a stately junk, tottering its way upstream, slatted sails rising to meet the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They wheeled the tottering cart back up the road and stood there in the cold and the gathering dark and called but no one came. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Leaning on the two men, Mrs. Rogers tottered out of the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Ralph stood now, one hand against an enormous red block, a block large as a mill wheel that had been split off and hung, tottering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The male seemed suddenly to totter, perhaps from the weight of its feathers or from the weight of rejection. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He rose, tottering, and he shouted that all was well; he charged forward, limping, his men behind him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We pulled around a comer, and I felt myself totter uncertainly and then lean into the door. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The girl was tottering forward, bent at the waist, one arm draped protectively across the taut drum of her belly, the shape of which was visible through her burqa. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If only people would use it every day, he told us, Nigeria would not totter like a Big Man with the spindly legs of a child. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another’s backs, until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Before Aunty Uju went into the bedroom, tottering under her many anxieties, she said, “Please just pray that it will work.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She tottered down the steps, swinging her cobra cane in front of her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, the mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The exhausted Humbug swayed and tottered on his rubbery legs, a look of longing on his anguished face. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Bathilda was tottering around the place lighting candles, but it was still very dark, not to mention extremely dirty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I seemed to totter on the edge of a great dark hole. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Through tear-blurred eyes Lyra saw her totter and clutch at a bench; her face, so beautiful and composed, grew in a moment haggard and horror-struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig got up and tottered forward into the devastated Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth slackened like a wet, boingy rubber band, and before he could do anything about it, his head teetered, tottered. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She pushed me with all her might and I tottered back a step but not much. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z As Perry continued to sort and choose, the pile of material he thought too dear to part with, even temporarily, assumed a tottering height. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The stalks were up to Cora’s shoulders now, bending and tottering, sprouting leaves and squares that were bigger every morning. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z From across the room Penelope spotted Lady Constance tottering her way back toward them. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z And she knelt and set Claire down on her feet, and the sick girl tottered into Olive’s arms. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small room, crowded with tottering piles of papers and books, and the whiteboards on the walls were covered in figures and equations. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The cat must have sensed this general failing, for he now walked steadily beside the dogs, very close to his tottering old friend, and uttered plaintive worried bleats. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, Roza stood with the mare, brushing her coat and murmuring to her as the goat tottered around them both. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z No shouts, no curses, no threats, no tottering footsteps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Indeed, Havel predicted in the mid-nineteen-eighties, even as Communism began to totter, that the kind of regime described in Orwell’s “1984” was certain to appear in the West. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The stylist puts her in a pair of incredibly high rose-gold heels and she totters around delightedly: “I’m terrible in heels. I look like a little baby trying them on.” Awkwafina: ‘I was always the crazy one, the funny one. I’d do anything for a laugh’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “The teeter has gone to totter — I’m on the way down.” Billy Ray Cyrus, Like Miley, Knows About Reinvention 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features I'd heard of Zorba the Greek, in the way that the classics of modern literature totter into the subconscious even without being read or studied. Summer readings: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis 2011-08-14T08:00:02Z There is a high likelihood that you will teeter and totter and possibly fall during your first class. Yoga 101: What to know before your first class 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z She is still a tottering presence in Lycra and platform heels. Review | It’s Mariah Carey season, and ‘Caution’ is perfectly timed 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Switching between the antiseptic medical institutions of 20th-century America and the pitiless chaos of the tottering Ottoman Empire, Mark Mustian reveals the unfeeling man that Conn/Khan was and the man he became. Newly Released Books 2010-09-16T14:56:00Z Bit totters on perilously high leopard-print heels, and sports a pink wig and mismatched clothes. Review: More than the Couples Are Odd in ‘The Hollower’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The orchestra captures the sounds of crackling thunder and roiling waves; chorus members erupt with cries of fear as they see the ship tottering. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Delivers a Seething ‘Otello’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Thanks to its tottering streets and its ancient hotel, it is unnervingly familiar. One shade of grey: how Nicola Beauman made an unlikely success of Persephone Books 2012-11-25T00:05:20Z There were newspapers in the living room, where foot traffic was dictated by the paths carved between tottering piles. Bill Blackbeard, Comic Strip Champion, Dies at 84 2011-04-29T23:46:48Z The tottering Italian economy is hitting funding for both sites, leaving them dangerously dependent on increasing tourist numbers. British Museum to showcase relics from Pompeii and Herculaneum 2013-02-24T15:21:57Z Her typically precarious constructions – be they the tottering boat or maquettes where tiny dwellings perch on cardboard precipices – are bittersweet reminders of the frailty of things. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z Meanwhile, Wendi Deng reared out of yesterday's proceedings like a Jocasta in waiting, flanked by the old and the young kings of a tottering Atrium. Could you make it up? Phone hacking in literature 2011-07-20T13:42:13Z There are some strong performances: Tamsin Carroll is a ballsy Titania, and Rebecca Oldfield's Helena totters around on high heels to considerable comic effect. A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2012-07-06T15:15:58Z And he builds the sound up, with instruments piled one on top of the other, vertical arrangements that teeter and totter and make you feel – that word again – giddy. New band of the day – Youth Lagoon (No 1,441) 2013-01-29T16:26:12Z And more often, I simply took myself to the very brink of life in hopes that if I tottered just enough, she might appear to pull me back from the edge. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z The way a hummingbird totters on a twig, its crablike claws grasping for a perch. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z At this point, the film totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn’t even play if it were made to seem more earned. Review: ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ and the Elusiveness of Truth 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The dignitaries totter towards the steps, desperately seeking sanctuary, but they way ahead is barred; they are stuck on the carpet. Oscars 2013: live! 2013-02-25T01:16:07Z The toddler tottered over to the turkey, her mother recalled, and the moment Harper understood the similarity between them, she smiled. This Texas farm connects special-needs kids with injured animals: ‘They’re just like me’ 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z McAvoy stays absolutely true to Lloyd's concept by offering us a Macbeth who is almost brutally physical: the kind of "strong man" who seizes power in a tottering realm. Macbeth – review 2013-02-24T16:01:01Z Mr. Todd acknowledges the challenges the president faced entering office: a tottering economy, two wars inherited from the Bush administration, and an obstructionist Republican opposition. Chuck Todd's 'The Stranger,' About Barack Obama 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Either sentence is imposed by forcing the renegade out onto the cracking winter ice that surrounds the city, and watching him try to totter and slide across to the safety of normal, non-revolutionary America. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z Afterward, we tottered into the night, collapsing into our tent, where we finished a bottle of chianti while staring at the stars. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z They find themselves, freezing and unsteady, tottering on a bunny hill. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The votes have been cast, and the judges are tottering, high-heeled, towards the closing night ceremony. Cannes film festival 2010: competition roundup 2010-05-23T16:58:00Z Plenty of small media start-ups these days believe they can deliver the final blow to the tottering neoliberal order. Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Store them on their rounded sides or peaked bottoms, and they’ll totter, roll, and squish the ripe flesh beneath. 5 Smart Farmers’ Market Hacks 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z "As the over-the-hill glamourpuss in Andrew Lloyd Webber's groundbreaking musical, she totters on like a feline Miss Havisham, delivering his best song, Memory, with an internalised regret," he wrote. Scherzinger debuts in Cats musical 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Put them together, however, and your assumptions begin to totter. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z Instead, she stuffs herself into at least three versions of shapewear before tottering out to gasp farewell to Lilly and Rock in an uncomfortably high register. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Select book from tottering stacks; scrutinise jacket; decide is potentially interesting; find pencil; begin reading. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z I tottered up a narrow stairwell to the warmth and noise of the third-floor apartment. Queer wedding planning at the end of the world 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The only food station that seemed to remain untouched by the Size 0 galleristas tottering on spiked platform heels was serving dessert. ArtsBeat: For Some Visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach, a Reminder of Sandy's Ravages 2012-12-05T21:50:17Z Grace arrived by ocean liner, and had to totter down a gangplank from a tender to meet Rainier, who was bobbing about expectantly on his yacht. Grace Kelly: Style Icon at the V&A 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z Bosch’s hellscapes presented palpable pandemonium, and even his more routine works were enlivened by inventive details: a winged fish with an unfriendly expression following Christ across a river; a tottering demon protruding from a funnel. Hieronymus Bosch’s Five-Hundredth-Anniversary Homecoming 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But tottering oldsters aren’t the only vulnerable people in the world. My Mother and Her Scammer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Elderly, and fatally trusting, she is shown tottering around with her pink wig on backward, slugging gin and falling drunkenly into a toilet. With a Friend Like Him, They Didn’t Need Enemies 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z That first night, I slept on the floor on a futon next to a tottering kerosene heater. The Kisses That Paid My Rent 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Larissa resembles a comely human luggage cart carrying the tottering emotional baggage of her past. Theater Review: ‘The Good Mother,’ at the Acorn Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z After all, awful and awesome in equal measure, those shoes, with their stubbed toes and tottering platforms, were, as invented objects, quite beautiful. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z The duo started out in unison then diverged, creating a disquieting undertone, not unlike watching a person tottering along the edge of a ridgeline. Review | Either/Or gives focused, sometimes unforgiving performance 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Hoop skirts cut dancers’ shins and left them tottering during spins, and arched headdresses “slipped and were then impossible to adjust,” she writes. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z I can see Richards now, tottering distractedly down the sloping, tongue-shaped stage to create a cacophonous discord. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z All the women tottered noisily in high heels, rushing on, off, up, down as required. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z Then again, that ladder is unstable and balanced atop a tottering platform. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z On screen, she strives and totters and very often goes down. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The overtones of martyrdom and sacrifice in this religious parable sat uneasily with the images of Watson tottering around the Scottish countryside in hotpants and heels. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z His orotund and irregular creations tower and totter. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z But even the music, intense and earnest, began to totter after a while under its own aspirations to greatness. American Music Festival at National Gallery opens with subdued concert 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z That she is almost certainly the best hope for her country is a chilling notion, all the more so for the resemblance of that tottering republic to our own. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z “The frail wee bird tottered onto Manhattan’s Lincoln Center stage last April, surveyed the gilded hall in which she was being paid tribute, and bellowed her famous line from Beyond the Forest: ”What a dump!” Remembering the Rememberer: 10 Great Obituaries Written by Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z A few images feature Kganye as a wide-eyed, ebullient baby, celebrating her first birthday or tottering across a lawn. A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Subsequent descriptions of England as a “tottering state” and “reeling world” have never sounded more apt. Review: A Richard III Who Steps Straight Out of the Land of Id 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z His imaginary world – an enclosed, decadent, opaque society that burrowed and wormed amid a tottering gothic city-castle that was falling in ruins even as its rulers schemed – was an intensely visual creation. Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake: master of the dark arts 2011-07-15T13:23:09Z As his right foot came down on her left, they both tottered and ended up nose to nose. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z Atmosphere is conjured with emergency instructions replaying on a tinny radio, and the occasional visits from the radioactive humans tottering around outside are a welcome diversion. ‘Aftermath,’ a Postapocalyptic Tale by Peter Engert 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z So off they totter, in their tweed and their rabbitskin, with their rocks and their Louis Vuitton bags, to further north than any of them knew existed. TV review: Geordie Finishing School for Girls 2011-07-26T21:05:05Z But with just a tottering head that often spews flames and smoke, the horse looks a little comic. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z She was drily funny and won quick sympathy as she huffed and tottered around a care home, preparing tea with old-fashioned attentiveness. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z They tend to totter precariously on their neat and tidy pedestals, and quite often more resemble things biologically secreted than artistically moulded. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z At this rate, you’ll be tottering around in comfortable slacks by the time everyone sees Silicon Valley for the masterpiece it is. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z But he brushed off the Captain’s jacket and straightened his hair, sometimes tottering on his feet as he nervously used one leg to scratch an itch on the other. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z The tottering women whom he personified onstage, his body twisted and grotesque, were both forces of nature and fragile creatures with flapping shoes and skewed wigs. Obituaries: Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103 2010-06-02T03:25:00Z In the theater, 700 people’s worlds collide each night, but this evening we were all tottering on one of the great tectonic shifts as our whole world was realigned. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Ultimately it totters too far to one side, but there is still the primal nail-biting need to know what-the-hell-is-going-on. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Her high heels are remarkable – transparent plastic, with maybe 4cm wedges at the front, flashing green lights with each tottering step. Too much to bare: behind the scenes at a lap-dancing club 2012-07-20T21:59:00Z Models tottered forth on a temporary concrete runway that had been doused in water for no apparent reason, wearing platform Tribute heels with stilettos so high they looked more like spindles. Dior and Saint Laurent Play Power Games in Paris 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The extraordinary lives of the Soongs were made possible by a confluence of globalization, modernization and Western penetration of an ancient, tottering empire. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Instead of adding another piece of commentary onto this tottering Jenga pile, we thought it would be nice to simply celebrate hilarious women. 10 funniest women writers on the Internet 2011-05-12T14:38:00Z But it’s disappointing to see how frequently the poet allows his musical prowess to overwhelm the focus of these poems, letting the balance totter in the direction of style over substance. Poetry review: Christian Wiman’s ‘Once in the West’ and Mary Oliver’s ‘Blue Horses’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z As he tottered to a waiting SUV, the former mayor was asked whether his stunts are undermining an election that, by all serious accounts, was fair and accurate. Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z While those throngs are a boon to Venezuela's tottering tourism industry, they also scatter a prehistoric landscape with unwanted litter and strain a delicate ecosystem. Adventurers flock to Venezuela's 'Lost World' mountain 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The relationship between foreground and background stays unsettled, and everything seems to be on the edge of tottering over. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Photograph: Simon Kane A gaunt and arthritic king totters on stage, his head a thatch of matted white hair – then, grinning, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and whisks off the wig. King Lear – review 2012-05-23T16:13:48Z His favoured materials are MDF, cardboard, photos and charity shop finds, brought together in tottering, risky constructions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z That relationship, which ended with Ms. Foss returning to her husband amid signs that Gould’s mental stability was tottering, became being one of the focal points of “Genius Within.” Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z When their breakneck-speed tourist bus and grim hotel room disappoint, they droop for a moment — just long enough for madcap heiress Cordelia Winthrop Scott to totter into the movie, on her very expensive heels. 'Monte Carlo': You can bet teen girls will like it 2011-06-30T19:37:03Z When confronted with this season’s tottering tower of new travel literature, I found it easy to sympathize with poor Pascal. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The hero, or anti-hero, is a tottering tower of reason whose visitation by dark forces seems a fitting punishment for his intellectual arrogance. The BBC's MR James adaptation could be the ghost at the Christmas feast 2010-12-24T10:52:42Z The wigmaker, tottering in heels and casting her own long mane over her shoulder, flutters her wide eyes as she explains that she keeps a box of tissues nearby for this very occasion. Confessions of a rabbi’s wife: “I wanted to hide behind a husband and a wig” 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Then an old lady tottered forward and grabbed my hand as tears poured down her face. “As the North Wind Howled” 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The Grand Inquisitor, blind and venomous, totters into the study of the Spanish monarch, Philip II. Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review 2013-05-11T23:07:35Z Lebanon today is a tottering weak country that is heavily influenced if not controlled by Iran and Hezbollah. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z And a piercing modern clarity is attained when Karl Johnson’s Gloucester totters across the stage with a walker, a bandage across his eyes and a disposable plastic rain poncho. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But if normalcy is the norm, how can a young girl stricken with polio and tottering on a pair of crutches ever fit in? Aliens Among Us 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Future excavation, and the plans for a major museum to display the extraodinary finds, may depend on what the future holds for the tottering Greek economy. Historian weeps at groundbreaking Alexander the Great exhibition 2011-04-06T17:04:13Z Nuns in starched costumes walk about holding tottering piles of linen. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The two-minute tale culminates with Ella landing headfirst in a bucket after attempting a cartwheel, then tottering around “like a zombie,” until her animal friends come to her aid. A Kid’s Show Juggernaut That Leaves Nothing to Chance 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Leading the orchestra in Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” that month, Mr. Frühbeck appeared to totter, and the music trailed off. Rafael Frühbeck, 80, Dies; Made the World a Podium 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z "Lincoln wasn't about to recognize a black man who killed three white officers when he has to convince four tottering border states to remain in the Union," he said. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z He came to school fully made up, changing at lunchtime into a lacy black two-piece suit with pencil skirt and shoulder pads to totter round the reservoir at Strathclyde Park. Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z All the potential for drama and comedy is sacrificed to this totteringly high concept. Film review: It's a Wonderful Afterlife 2010-04-22T22:20:00Z A non-celebrity winner, the Oscars producer Glenn Weiss, proposed to his girlfriend onstage, a moment that momentarily tottered somewhere between sweet and too much—then landed squarely on sweet, because his fiancée seemed genuinely happy. The 2018 Emmys: The Blah Place 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The beauty, the lusciousness, the humor and playfulness, the nuance are all here ... the movement of the heron in flight, of fish in the water, the tottering old aunties. Hayao Miyazaki's ‘The Boy and the Heron’ makes clear the world is a fragile place 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z A complex of 13 high-rises by the sea was pounded to dust near Gaza City’s al-Shati refugee camp, leaving only a few tottering bits of the facade, according to the photos by Maxar Technologies. Israel strikes the outskirts of Gaza City during a second ground raid in as many days 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z A complex of 13 high-rises by the sea was pounded to dust near Gaza City’s al-Shati refugee camp, leaving only a few tottering bits of facade. Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z A June study said the country's current energy provision was "critically unhealthy and tottering towards a power crisis". Ghana power crisis: Limited gas supply triggers nationwide power outage 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z It is heavily financed by the country’s notoriously opaque $2.9 trillion trust industry, which also appears to be tottering. How do we manage China’s decline? | Bret Stephens 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Sri Lanka has been gradually easing import restrictions, which were imposed as the country's economy tottered from a financial crisis caused by a severe shortage of dollars. Sri Lanka lifts import ban on trucks, heavy vehicles 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four. Chinese Zoo Denies, in Voice of a Bear, That Sun Bear Is a Person in a Suit 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a frightening move and a further blow to our already tottering system of democracy. Column: Lawmakers in states are handcuffing voters and ignoring election results 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Syria’s rehabilitation could unlock billions of dollars in reconstruction projects and other investments for its tottering economy, further propping up Mr. al-Assad. Arab League Votes to Readmit Syria, Ending a Nearly 12-Year Suspension 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z The move in Colorado comes as the party totters on the brink of political irrelevance in a state moving swiftly to the left. Colorado GOP selects combative, election-denying new leader 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Some squarely blame him for the precarious state of the country — a nuclear-armed nation of 220 million with tottering institutions, fractious politics, a crumbling economy and empowered religious extremism. Musharraf’s Legacy: A Conflicted Pakistan and a Bristling Military 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The totters would pull out bigger pieces which might get stuck in machinery, he added. Yamal Mohamed: Waste firm found guilty over worker's death 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The tiger-skin-clad fellow at the center of “Mad Man” totters close to the ground, grasping the string of a skull-embellished balloon as if the orb will keep him upright — or sane. In the galleries: An artist’s journey through the pandemic 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Old empires were tottering, and world powers were vying for position. Review | How an American teacher became a symbol of Iran’s democratic dreams 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The first nine weeks of this season tottered into parity. Perspective | NFL contenders beware: A star quarterback is no longer enough 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The naturalist, who often loathed sea voyages, at one point wrote about himself as “not unlike a newly hatched bird, tottering on feeble legs.” Audubon’s writings on ocean voyages and seabirds complicate his legacy 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent Egypt’s financial house of cards tottering. A New Capital Worthy of the Pharaohs Rises in Egypt, but at What Price? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It is almost certain that the Biden White House would intervene to prevent a nationwide rail strike, which would be a body blow to the nation's tottering supply chain and shaky economy. On strike for a better world: Labor conflict is coming — and the ruling class will fight back hard 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Suddenly, he was on his feet, tottering between quakes of turbulence to Wyatt Brown, a graduate student about a third of the way up the cabin. The Hidden Toll of Wildfires 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z But Gorbachev did not aim to make the Soviet Union into a Western country so much as to repair a system tottering toward stagnation. Perspective | Why Gorbachev’s death feels like it’s part of an alternate history 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z As for the tottering bees, the researchers found that the insecticides in question undeniably made it more difficult for them to maintain a straight path. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In Africa, Wagner began to advise tottering dictators, run social media disinformation campaigns and deploy teams of fake election monitors, according to Western officials, experts and United Nations investigators. Putin’s Shadow Soldiers: How the Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z He knocked once more, and an elderly woman in blue slippers and a long coat tottered out the gate, a floral bonnet over her silver hair. Ukrainian volunteers seek to save the living in a suburban ghost town outside Kyiv 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z After coming upon sickening atrocity after atrocity, the Arabs discover “a three or four year old child, with a huge wound where neck and body joined. She tottered forward and cried ‘Don’t hit me, Baba.’ Review | Why ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ is worth reading today 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Still, over the years, he’s occasionally been accused by critics of making his models — particularly the women — suffer, binding their arms to their sides or having them totter down runways in inhumane shoes. How Thom Browne Turned the Gray Flannel Suit Into Something Subversive 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Thou art the old man tottering on his staff: Once born thou comest to be, thy face turned every way! World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An embargo would threaten the very lifeline of the country’s already tottering economy. Why Western sanctions aren't hitting Russia where it would hurt the most: Oil and gas 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Most days I’d walk down Shattuck Avenue to the library, where I’d borrow as many books as I could carry, then head back to my room and leave the books in tottering piles, unread. Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In the afternoon Mr. Kaboré’s Twitter account published a message in which he urged people to stand fast behind their tottering democracy. Military Takes Power in West African Nation of Burkina Faso 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Libor was once “on top of the world,” he said, but became a “disreputable, tottering old geezer at the end.” Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z They’re the fans of Alabama football, and here they trickle and then gush into yet another championship city, a city icy enough that Saturday saw hapless souls here and there tottering on sidewalks. What’s it like being an Alabama fan? Lots of titles and some angst in all those big games. 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The violence that unfolded involved an Indian Independence hero, a future British monarch, and a tottering Ottoman sultan. Viewpoint: When Hindus and Muslims joined hands to riot 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z By the end of each day he tottered down the winding stairs with his hands shaking, physically and emotionally drained. ‘Alpha,’ by David Philipps: A Navy SEAL’s Behavior Worried Teammates and Changed How They Fought 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z But the marathon would not be canceled until 2012, as the city tottered from another heavy blow, the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. How the New York City Marathon Grew Up 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He approached the pope with tottering steps at the start of the audience in the large Paul VI hall. Persistent boy steals show at papal audience 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z That trade appears to be tottering now, as worries over slowing growth send yields tumbling to their lowest level in more than four months. Analysis: Falling U.S. bond yields may signal death knell for 'reflation' stock trade 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z On the other side of the fountain, a band played songs by Jimi Hendrix while a bare-chested man tottered around. Whose Park Is It? Residents and Revelers Clash Over Washington Square. 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The American jobs machine tottered last month, confounding optimistic forecasts of the labor market’s recovery and sharpening debates over the impact of federal pandemic-related jobless benefits on the nation’s work force. Job Growth Slowed in April, Muddling Expectations 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Yet Newsom is showing more concern for a relatively small group of prosperous Central Valley farmers than he is for the tottering delta’s human and animal constituents. Op-Ed: Newsom promises while the delta dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Before hundreds of cheering spectators, Black and White, the surviving members of the Fighting Warriors trotted — or, in some cases, tottered — across the infield as the announcer called their names. A Black high school baseball team won a championship in 1969. Their hometown waited 50 years to celebrate. 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Marie, strapped in to her bespoke wheeled frame and harness, now totters happily around Pohl’s barn, learning the ropes of social interaction with baby lamb Schlufine and greeting other animals en route. Orphaned and disabled, baby alpaca walks again with her own set of wheels 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Ali was clearly in trouble as he tottered to his corner at the end of the round, and the celebrity-laden throng that paid an indoor live record boxing gate of $1.25 million went wild. AP Was There: Ali, Frazier and the Fight of the Century 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Seconds later, Maliah reappeared, tottering down the stairs armed with her father’s freshly cleaned clothes and her sister’s pants. Treehouse teaching and laundry art: Educators find creative ways to reach kids 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Tagovalioa tottered off the field after his sixth sack early in the fourth quarter and looked to be limping on the sideline, but Flores said it wasn’t his young quarterback’s health that was the issue. Tagovailoa benched in 1st pro loss but move isn’t permanent 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Now a slow totter around the park leaves me breathless and exhausted. BBC correspondent: 'Long Covid has left me exhausted for seven months' 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z He seemed especially bemused by campaign ads suggesting the country would erupt in violence under a Biden presidency, as the forces of chaos and anarchy overwhelmed tottering police forces. Analysis | Joe Biden takes a non-virtual moment to muse on his basement, apocalyptic ads and being Trump’s ‘antithesis’ 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “The bankruptcy of Cirque de Soleil highlights the fact that the show biz and tourism sector will continue to suffer. The economy is still barely tottering,” she said. Safe-haven currencies on defensive, sterling soft on spending plan 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z In all, 24 men lost one of their feet, condemned to totter on a stump for the remainder of their lives. Op-Ed: New Mexicans push a Spanish conquistador off his pedestal 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Molina, tottering across the clean lines of David Meyer’s beige set, crumples before our eyes into a state of confounded helplessness. Review: Alfred Molina, like Lear with dementia, thunders in 'The Father' at Pasadena Playhouse 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z A lawyer and league official before he was named commissioner in 1984, he stabilized a league that was tottering with its fan base shrinking and many of its teams losing money. David Stern, commissioner who built NBA into global sports phenomenon, dies at 77 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In an idyllic natural setting borrowed from another millennium, nude bathers totter across stones, interrupted by flashes of fish wriggling, hands touching, a mouth opening and closing, all synced to the sound of rhythmic breathing. At the Hirshhorn, a showcase of recent acquisitions takes the temperature of the art world 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “Iran’s aggression is growing, but its empire is tottering,” Mr. Netanyahu said. Netanyahu and Pompeo Seek Heightened Pressure on Iran in Wake of Violent Protests 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Saka went down in the box late on but no penalty was given and Emery totters on to what now looks sure to be an unhappy end. Unai Emery running out of time after Arsenal lose to Eintracht Frankfurt 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Like the R. & B. singer Ginuwine, Beck has an uncanny knack for writing lyrics that totter between farcical and titillating. Beck Is Home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z "She was teetering and tottering and learning to balance and I just wanted to see what would happen. But we're still good pals." Robo-dog creator learned by knocking down toddler 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z He tottered around first base for a double. Rich Hill marks his return with gutsy performance in Dodgers' win over Padres 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “If the state totters, those with nasty memories of life under the Taliban will fight on.” Afghanistan: current US withdrawal plan risks 'total civil war', top envoys say 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z These pterosaurs were acting like Jurassic flamingos, tottering around and sifting out little morsels from the shallows. Sifting through the Pterosaur Menu 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z What your teeter totter looks like, and where it is installed, will influence the imaginary worlds of future riders. How to Build a Teeter Totter 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Lawrence and Season Lee were marching on a highway with their 3-year-old daughter, who tottered along in pink galoshes. Hong Kong Protesters Defy Police Ban in Show of Strength After Tumult 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Behind him, his son and grandson tottered along, hand in hand. Women Are Fleeing Death at Home. The U.S. Wants to Keep Them Out. 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The story’s multiple New York locations all emerge from set designer Stephen Gifford’s clever evocation of Bialystock’s office, which is hemmed in by tottering towers of metal file cabinets, stuffed to bursting with paper. Review: Small theaters think big with ‘Ragtime’ at the Chance and ‘The Producers’ at Celebration 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z He quit after two months and now hangs disconsolately around outside a low-cost, multistory migrant hostel where small children totter, kittens gambol and a handful of migrant workers chatter. Chinese millennials are rejecting dull factory jobs — and transforming the economy 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z “As we’ve learned from interest rates, zero is a psychological barrier, not a real one. The fund industry is tottering on that barrier right now. Negative fees are coming.” A Price War Has Driven Fund Fees to Zero. They May Be Set to Drop Further. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The shocking footage showed cars on top of other cars -- with some vehicles tottering over the side of the guardrail. SEE IT: Cars atop other cars in huge rush-hour smashup in Beijing 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z But 40 percent of Egypt’s 98 million people live in neighborhoods more like the one they were sitting in, dust-blown locales with broken roads and tottering, often illegally constructed, buildings. What to Do About Cairo’s ‘Uncivilized’ Buildings? President Orders Epic Paint Job 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Scarcely had he offered this brief reply when I saw Experience approaching, and the columns of the portico of hypotheses began tottering, its vaults sagging and its floor opening under our feet. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z What if, having received the mandate, Netanyahu were positioned to form an alliance with a centrist party, like the tottering Gesher, making sweeping concessions to it? Benjamin Netanyahu Finally Faces a Real Challenger in Benny Gantz—If the Opposition Can Unite Behind Him 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Had the old lady lost her marbles with grief, tottering around this shrine with her virtual pets? A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z And in upstate New York, Pam Moore was feeding hay to her black-and-white cows at a small dairy that tottered on the brink of ruin. Farm Country Stood by Trump. But the Shutdown Is Pushing It to Breaking Point. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z From someone’s eyes or tottering movement, Ms. Goodson could tell if a patient was intoxicated — and having people lie to her was disheartening. Her Addictions Made Her a Great Fit for the Job 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Between weeks two and three, they learn to stand, totter around like furry drunks, then walk steadily. Where do guide dogs really come from? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, forced out under military pressure after 37 years in power, tottered into a voting booth in the first election without his name on the ballot. Africa in 2018: An extraordinary peace blooms amid crises 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z In this sparkling scholarly treatise, historian Pamela Long reveals how tottering infrastructure, ancient ruins and the flood-prone river Tiber were tamed by four successive popes with bold plans for the urban fabric. Big oil in the dock, the influenza trail, and insects as icons: Books in brief 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The men’s rouge is a garish blotch, and their tottering wigs sprout like private shrubberies. Glamour, Wit, and Cunning in “The Favourite” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Lee’s most memorable speech bubbles totter on the edge between speech, poetry, and outright doggerel. The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z As the government tottered and violence spread, some wavering members of the military and the government — frightened of the chaos and looking to ally with a winner — gravitated to the Houthis. How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate — and the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Taking small steps, he tottered toward Taylor, who was sitting on a stool, and kissed him on the head. ‘He’s Ours. Patrick Mahomes Is Ours.’ 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Wei tottered a bit as he walked and frequently lost his train of thought. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Air Force Amy totters around the kidney-shaped swimming pool in her high heels to show me the gym where women can work out between clients. Last call for Nevada’s brothels? 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z A small child and her mother, both in sparkly shift dresses, tottered to the bathroom in matching silver heels. Miss America, Swimsuit-Free, Enters the Era of Wokeness 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z So, when the crisis struck and many sources of short-term bank funding dried up, the European banks were left tottering. The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The story told in the People’s Republic of China is of Britain preying with its warships on an innocent, tottering China with the aim of facilitating Britain’s opium trade. Review | What a previous trade war with China might teach us 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “Igor, come here I’d like to have a word with you,” howled a woman, playing the disappointed wife, tottering down the street in heels. Blood, sweat and beers: Russia down but proud after World Cup exit 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The people had already started: I saw young men clambering over tottering concrete, filling a donkey cart with stones. A suicide in Gaza 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But as we near a few huts made of branches and draped with mosquito netting, a slender woman in a worn T-shirt and sari totters toward us. Farmers, tourists, and cattle threaten to wipe out some of the world’s last hunter-gatherers 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z As the women answered and talked, Jaelynn tottered off unsteadily and grabbed a ball, before plopping over. Raising babies behind bars 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “Do you have any doubt that states that are tottering on the edge of insolvency and municipalities which may be in even worse position have a strong incentive to grab everything they possibly can?” Internet sales taxes divide Supreme Court justices 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z A woman climbed onto a wooden barricade to snap photos of people tottering by on stilts. Washington celebrates a day for marching and remembering 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z FirstEnergy’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants filed for bankruptcy this weekend after tottering for months. Trump Faces Test on Coal With FirstEnergy Appeal 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z It tottered in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan muscled trading partners into curbing their exports to America. In America, a political coalition in favour of protectionism may be emerging 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Demolishing the tottering house on the 300-square-metre plot would be expensive—and pointless, since she cannot dispose of the land at any price. A startling amount of land in Japan has no official owner 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Californian Republicans running for Congress in November’s midterm elections however are expected to steer clear of the president to avoid further alienating voters in tottering GOP redoubts. Trump in California: first official visit met with protests and scorn 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And as the revelations mounted, one on top of another like a tottering tower, Israelis expressed increasing doubt about Mr. Netanyahu’s ability to maintain his grip on power. Top Aide to Netanyahu Turns State Witness as Graft Cases Multiply 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z There are few old patriarchs tottering down from the ranch house to quarterback the process, from picking to pressing to the first prospecting sip. For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It is tottering on the brink of war that probably won’t become a world war but will certainly destroy North Korea. Perspective | The Olympics could help solve the Korean crisis — if South Korea allows it 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, her free spirit increasingly totters on the erratic, putting her on the spectrum between bipolar and schizophrenic. Mira Lee’s ‘Everything Here Is Beautiful’ tells of two sisters and a legacy of mental illness 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z We totter on high heels that make us weak and vulnerable. Opinion | Sexuality, Sex Abuse and Sexism 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Only when Praljak, tottering, his eyes glazed, slumped to his seat and announced “I have taken poison” did the judges react. Security clampdown at The Hague amid fears of further suicides 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Stewart, 55, set out on crutches, tottering out of his mobile home and down a metal ramp he’d laid when stairs became too much. 10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Steadying a tottering financial system is never a graceful exercise, as American and European authorities discovered after the financial crisis. India recapitalises its state-owned banks 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Congress repeatedly tottered on the verge of bankruptcy. In terms of political stalemate and crisis, is today very different from the 1780s? 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The island’s infrastructure and finances were already tottering before the hurricane, but Trump’s early and repeated references to that fact struck some as insensitive. Islanders, lawmakers decry Trump's threatened pullback of federal help for battered Puerto Rico 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But despair deepens when the work slows or even stops, when rain or an aftershock threatens the stability of the tottering pile, and as day after day passes without their loved ones emerging. Hope of finding earthquake survivors In Mexico City dwindles 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z As the manufacturing council fell apart, another presidential advisory group was also tottering. The Moral Voice of Corporate America 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “I’m fine, fine,” she said, tottering away without a glance back. Support for a Stranger 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Coming down a rise in the rolling farmland here, Sara Lee put on the brakes of her bicycle and stooped to pick up a box turtle slowly tottering across the asphalt. Finding peace in nature after war 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z OZORA, Mo. — Coming down a rise in the rolling farmland here, Sara Lee put on the brakes and stooped to pick up a box turtle slowly tottering across the asphalt. Finding Some Peace After War 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The Maduro regime is already tottering, struggling to meet its financial obligations, feed its people and pay its oil workers, soldiers and police officers. Wider U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Risk Biting Both Countries 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z As we noted earlier this month, many of the individual exchanges are tottering. Editorials from around New England 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Once and likely future pretender to the Tory crown whose denials of interest in Mrs May’s tottering throne are strangely disbelieved by everyone. Andrew Rawnsley’s A to Z of Brexit 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z IN 2008, as banks cracked on both sides of the Atlantic, Britain’s government prepared to shore up tottering lenders. Barclays and four former executives are charged with fraud 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The Senate bill, like the House measure, would provide billions of dollars to states to help stabilize insurance markets, which Republicans say are tottering in many states. G.O.P. Rift Over Medicaid and Opioids Imperils Senate Health Bill 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z When I finish a book, I pick up whatever looks most appealing from the tottering piles at hand. What your favorite writers are reading this summer 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z As time went by and the kids outgrew their car seats, Danielle and Colleen tottered around the plane as young children. Pilot takes first solo flight in two-seat aircraft she built 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z “The trend we’re seeing now is for much longer distances and more adventurous travel,” said the designer, in between hugs from the tottering wives of his clients. Party on the helipad! My day sipping champagne with the superyacht set 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It crossed the ritual border, and slowly tottered its way over. A trip to Central Park : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Do not act like a drunken mouse, she admonished Bella when, at a rehearsal, she tottered on in a pair of heels, unfit slippers for an unenthusiastic Cinderella. “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Certainly, taxpayers won’t be protected by this legislation, which will put an additional $826 million in tax money annually to bolster the tottering pension system, facing an unfunded liability of $24 billion. South Carolina editorial roundup 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers totter along the twisting walkway, bathed in artificial purple light — burdened, at least occasionally, by the instinct that they should have known better. Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the ‘Winning’ Will Start 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Airlines needlessly demean customers, who are gouged for fees to goose the margins of tottering industry monoliths like United. Perspective | Our economy is a hellscape for consumers. The United flier is the latest victim. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The girl stands on her own, tottering slightly to the left. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But as I tottered past, people at the Pink Palace weren’t revolted. ‘Star Trek’ fan has Gorn-again experience 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z This article will look at two main examples: an unambiguously failed state, South Sudan, and a state tottering on the brink, Afghanistan. Why states fail and how to rebuild them 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Then he tottered away and began playing with the cardboard box instead, like a boy who would never celebrate Christmas without a tree they’d decorated together. She was raised in dozens of foster homes. Can she keep her own son out of the system? 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Creditors are asking the government to allow the auction of delinquent debtors’ properties to prop up the country’s tottering banks. Italy, Hillary Clinton, Turkey: Your Monday Briefing 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z North Carolina has long tottered on the ridge separating progressive politics from backwater conservatism. Protests and Storms Make North Carolina’s Election Year ‘a Bizarre Experience’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “The most important thing to do is not to pile up scientific reports until they reach a tottering pile of about eight feet, where they’ll tip over and crush somebody,” Hayhoe continued. To avoid the worst climate impacts, Obama tells Leo DiCaprio, ‘We’re really in a race against time’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr Primus notes that with the court tottering on an ideological divide, it takes only one newcomer to push it left or right. About to tilt 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Assad regime, which was tottering a year ago, will be entrenched and its opposition dealt a powerful blow. Whether or not the Syrian cease-fire sticks, Putin wins 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z After briefly albeit narrowly leading Hillary Clinton last month, he has tottered to a 7.5-point deficit in the Real Clear Politics average. The Trump Panic 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Don’t rule it out after such a solid brick as Britain has been removed from its tottering wall. The post-Brexit landscape: who can keep it all from falling apart? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, conditions in tottering Iraq and the former nation of Syria grow ever murkier, more chaotic, and less amenable by the week to any solution American officials might care for. We’ll be fighting forever: America just can’t kick its addiction to war 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The main sticking points are a demanded overhaul of Greece's tottering pension system, where the left-led government insists it will not cut current pensions, tax reforms and protection for people who can't repay bank loans. Greek officials and representatives of the country's bailout creditors will have another go at overcoming disagreements on austerity measures, after all-night talks failed to produce a breakthrough 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But then, as now, they knew that their power was tottering. This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z All those Gainsborough portraits of tottering towers of grey on clearly youthful women. Grey is great: why hair is the last bastion of vanity | Anne Perkins 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z There are no signs, either, that the regime is tottering. Carrots or sticks to take on North Korea? - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The late British prime minister knew the lesson of the past: When politicians try to impose grand designs on peoples of different histories, languages and cultural allegiances, the edifice totters and collapses. A Better Britain Outside the EU 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The rattle did overtime, So did the players, who tottered excitedly through five minutes stoppage time. Arsenal v Burnley, Manchester City v Aston Villa and more: FA Cup clockwatch - live! 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z I don’t recall the name, only that I was dressed in a too-tight T-shirt and shiny trousers that mirrored the silver bits of glitter on my skin, as I tottered into Concorde’s lounge. What it was really like to go Mach 2 on Concorde 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Her emerald scarf is nice with the satin dress she wears on holidays, tottering on gold heels as she walks across the asphalt parking lot of her Wichita mosque. The Education of Maira Salim 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Chelsea’s players have looked enervated, disgruntled, even openly insubordinate ever since, tottering their way to nine Premier League defeats in 16 games, culminating in a thrillingly hapless 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Monday night. Adeus, José – a fittingly operatic departure for the game's first celebrity manager 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Despite the current focus on Waer, the core of Homs remains the Old City, where an eerie silence prevails, broken occasionally by the sound of workmen patching a crumbling wall or reinforcing tottering buildings. Syrian rebels in the historic city of Homs are leaving behind a panorama of destruction 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The rattle did overtime, So did the players, who tottered excitedly through five minutes stoppage time. Arsenal v Burnley, Manchester City v Aston Villa and more: FA Cup clockwatch - live! 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But when the EU’s signature projects, from the euro to Schengen, are tottering, they are hardly minded to let an irascible Britain weaken the union’s foundations yet further. Battling with Britain 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Children play on a makeshift teeter totter in the Mekong market town of Nakasang. To Dam or Not to Dam? 12 Photos of the Mekong River 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z It starts with Saudi Arabia, whose tottering monarchy made a devil’s bargain with local Wahhabi clerics decades ago. The 2016 Candidates Need Thoughtful Strategies on ISIS—Soon 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z That would be Saudi Arabia, whose tottering monarchy made a devil’s bargain with the Wahhabis decades ago. The Democratic Debate: Incoherent on ISIS 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z A few yards away, at another tottering table, Adnan Sheikh Mohammad clicked shut his flip-phone and smiled broadly, clapping his cousin, Sami, on the shoulder. Rough Seas and Falling Temperatures Fail to Stop Flow of Refugees 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The long suffering helper would totter off to the next room in a panic. Amazon and NYT: the row continues - BBC News 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Children play on a makeshift teeter totter in the Mekong market town of Nakasang. To Dam or Not to Dam? 12 Photos of the Mekong River 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Asian shares tottered on Wednesday, taking cues from Wall Street's losses and pressured by a continued selloff in oil as investors awaited consumer price data from China this session. Asian shares slip, taking cues from Wall Street 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z As subsidies, incentives and mandates totter on the brink of planned and potential extinction, it is more important that the industries reduce costs to compete in the marketplace, experts say. Renewable Energy Financing Hits a Snag 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z One by one they totter uncertainly up the ladder to the Argos. A day on a refugee rescue ship: 'this job must be done, there must be no sinking' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The European Central Bank spent the eurozone debt crisis combating economic and market divergence within the currency bloc as government bond markets fragmented and economies tottered. Fed Rate Wait Doesn’t Make it Easy for the ECB 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Children play on a makeshift teeter totter in the Mekong market town of Nakasang. To Dam or Not to Dam? 12 Photos of the Mekong River 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z What started as a small group of men daring to totter around a park has grown to become a worldwide movement with tens of thousands of men raising millions of dollars. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes raises awareness of sexual violence 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The dollar dipped against the yen on Tuesday, reversing earlier modest gains as Asian equities tottered and put the safe-haven Japanese currency in favor. Dollar dips vs yen as Asian equities totter 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Teeter-totters teetering and tottering all in a big row, but they can't all bottom out on the same side at the same time. Verge Fiction: An excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z I am sitting in a corridor in a London hotel when Cara Delevingne - internationally recognised supermodel, budding actress and ubiquitous tabloid darling - totters past me on vertiginous stiletto heels. Cara Delevingne: 'The best revenge is being happy' - BBC News 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Marina totters up, and Chin tosses her into the air. Why Jimmy Chin Takes Pictures While Climbing and Skiing Mountains 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z IN THE tumult and uncertainty that marked Russia after the Soviet Union imploded, when the state was weak and many institutions tottering, a vital lifeline was extended from the West. Vladimir Putin is suffocating his own nation 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Finland’s coalition, formed only two months ago, tottered at the prospect of funding a third Greek bail-out. The dark clouds of peace 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z She does sleep over, one night, and is mortified at waking up on Staten Island and tottering home in a tiny gold skirt and scarlet heels. Amy Schumer Comes Clean in “Trainwreck” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Greeks were already chafing this week under capital controls imposed by Tsipras’ government in order to prevent a run on the country’s tottering financial system. Greeks vote on what answer to give international lenders: yes or no 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Celebrities wore them, reality stars wore them, rich women tottering down the Kings Road wore them. The day I threw out my Juicy Couture tracksuit 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Spend a few hours watching the robots totter around drunkenly, pondering doorknobs for minutes at a time, and it’s easy to conclude that these robots are pretty stupid. Behind the scenes at the final DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It is largely thanks to their opposition that the commission’s plan, which needs majority approval, is tottering, despite backing from Germany, France and Italy. A walk down solidarity street 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But as we grow used to more mobility and to bringing along our own devices, might the stodgy workplace computer at last totter on the precipice of change? Movable type: The brave new world of office computing - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He was credited with helping to salvage a tottering fertilizer plant in Hebei Province and to transform it into the Haomen Group, a state-owned beer company listed as one of China’s 500 most profitable enterprises. China Hunts Fugitives Accused of Corruption, Many in U.S. 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Playing the game is fun and engaging, with a cartoon penguin named JiJi tottering across the screen to celebrate each solution. How video games could make our kids smarter and learning more engaging 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z For reasons that seem sadly frivolous today, all of Europe’s major powers, including the Ottoman Empire—the tottering “Sick Man of Europe”—went to war in 1914. All Quiet on the Dardanelles: Century Later Brave Gallipoli Dead Remind Us Of The Stupidity Of War 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Currently, rabbit hopping usually consists of small single or larger jumps, sometimes combined with other equipment, such as teeter totters and bridges. Rabbit hopping competitions jump in popularity 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The reforms list also pledged to reduce early retirements to cut the burden on the country's tottering pension system but sought to avoid any tax hikes in the key tourism sector. Greek Reforms List Proposes Bad Bank, Lowers Asset Sales Target 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “In order for this to become a true holiday village, there is still work to be done,” he said, pointing to a tottering wooden fence near a chicken coop held up by wire and weeds. For Rent: A Hungarian Village, and a Mayoral Title 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z People were setting off firecrackers in the streets; spiky-haired teenage boys wandered around in leather jackets, girls tottered on high heels, everyone shouting into the night and snapping photos with their cellphones. Meet the Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z In a tottering house a few blocks away, Lyuba Sklyarova lay on a mattress on the floor beneath layers of soiled blankets. In Eastern Ukraine, Desperation and Destruction in a Contested City 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z He followed a series of speakers who said that the U.S. economy and political establishment were tottering and that the best response might be for states, counties or even individuals to break away. Rand Paul’s daddy issues begin to emerge as the Kentucky senator preps for White House bid 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Bouncing from seemingly unsolvable conflicts in Syria and Iraq, to a crushing defeat of Democrats in the midterm election, the president appeared ready to totter off into lame duck status. Obama ends year with reminders that he's still not irrelevant 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The test-takers of a century ago who tottered their way to the Knowledge on bicycles earned a heady reward: not just a green badge, but something close to a guaranteed living. The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z When Germany’s finance minister urged continued budget discipline instead of U.S.-style quantitative easing, that exacerbated fears that the euro zone might totter into recession and deflation. Back on the brink? A guide to what’s happening in the markets Then he wandered out into the night, and tottering, hailed a cab. After Saturday Night, a Bit of Old New York Can Still Be Found 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He wrote in Dream Song #120: “I totter to the lip of the cliff.” Remembering John Berryman, a Giant of American Poetry One thing is certain: If America and Europe back down on sanctions without getting anything other than a tottering ceasefire from Vladimir Putin, all is lost. As Russia Intimidates Europe, Obama Fiddles On Energy Policy 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of people,” wrote Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in Shah of Shahs. Ferguson’s black community must not be given the same ‘justice’ as Trayvon Martin 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The private sector is tottering sluggishly out of the recession while Wall Street and high-income people are doing very well. Rebuilding America, one bridge at a time The tottering monument to Action Park’s infamy is its most poorly designed attraction, the Cannonball Loop. The Perfect Amusement Park: Thrills, Chills, Spills and the Occasional Death Women would simply grab odd shoes to help them totter effectively. The bizarre tale of the ladies who limped 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The previous autumn, I had tottered around in it on a training course deep in the English countryside. Revisiting Kurdistan: 'If there is a success story in Iraq, it's here' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Wheeler was talking about other buyers who have repaired the houses and rented them out, creating an income stream while adding a layer of stability to tottering sections of the city. The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “If Carrie Bradshaw were still tottering around New York,” we asked, “where would the Sex And The City protagonist meet her girlfriends for a nosh and some gossip?” RIP Crumbs: Cupcake Chain's Closure Is Warning Shot For 'One-Item Wonders' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Shelves lined each room and tall stacks tottered on desks, on tables, across every open space. The Rev. Tomas Halik Castigates Putin for Russia’s Seizure of Crimea 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The Kurds consider Kirkuk – just outside their autonomous zone – their historic capital; its capture makes it more tempting for the Kurds to go it alone rather than sticking with an unpopular and tottering regime. John Kerry urges Kurdish leaders to back Iraqi government 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Unusually, this is a trend that appeals to surfers, the sun-sensitive and those tottering around in heels in the beach bar alike. Long sleeves on bikinis: summer 2014's most unexpected trend 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Or shoes, because another sign of this excessive arrogance on the field is that he is tottering round on 'salto alto' - high heels, like some preening, self-obsessed vaudeville star. The language of Brazilian football 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Young women in impossibly high heels totter over the charred timbers, through the paper-strewn sooty corridors, past the mangled office furniture. Dark new narratives in Odessa 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z As he tottered round southern China, berating conservatives and calling for the liberation of China’s economy from ideological shackles, he remarked: “If any problem occurs in China, it will arise from within the party.” The lessons of history 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The poor fellow was apologizing all over himself but was overwhelmed by the torrent of abuse and still tottering around the car. Pizza Man Meets Subway Terror 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Fatah leaders insist they are confident in the president's decisions on behalf of the national cause now that yet another round of talks predictably totter towards failure. Abbas seeks legitimacy in Palestinian strategy splurge 2014-04-24T14:24:54Z Even Hollywood is tottering, as film and TV producers are lured away by tax bribes in other states. Los Angeles: Clipped wings 2014-04-16T14:55:18Z As your Old Normal totters, well-meaning friends and relatives reinforce your feeling of disconnect from your old life by assuming that the only topic you want to talk about is your worry and sorrow. Nine Hard-Won Lessons About Grief 2014-04-16T09:45:13Z I feel a little like my 21-month-old son, tottering around the house in exploration mode, smacking into things and falling down, trying to make sense of the world with my babbling proto-linguistic toddler-speak. Dark Souls 2′s De-Spawns Are Either Game-Breaking Godawful or Inspired Genius 2014-03-31T19:40:23Z He tried to maintain his balance, but the first good jolt sent him tottering, pizza-box-first, into a woman standing near the door. Pizza Man Meets Subway Terror 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Nearly 100,000 annual members later, bike share in New York City remains a rolling contradiction — a runaway success tottering beneath the weight of its own riders. As Citi Bike Approaches Anniversary, Worries Abound 2014-03-26T18:28:49Z It is difficult to overwrite the image of him tottering on the runway and pushing away an official before trotting toward the bar, which was under no threat of being cleared. Track and field: High-Jump Stars Aim for a Venerable Record 2014-03-06T19:07:43Z But the alternative, a region tottering sine die on the brink of catastrophe, may be worse. Should Crimea be leased to Russia? 2014-03-06T09:11:14Z Banks tottered and currencies shrank, and in the three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers the gold price gained $1,000. A Journey Into World's Deepest Gold Mine 2013-12-13T19:10:17Z He tottered toward the door, pawing at the wall as he went. Haruki Murakami: “Samsa in Love.” 2013-10-21T04:00:00Z She served five years during a rocky time when banks were tottering and interest rates were skyrocketing. Muriel Siebert, First Woman to Own a Seat on Wall St., Dies at 80 2013-08-25T22:34:01Z My favourites are the Paris Hilton lookalikes, who totter across the flagstones on vertiginous heels that would have been a challenge to the stilts worn by Venetian courtesans 500 years ago. Sporting spectacle on the piazza 2013-07-12T16:22:30Z The two bankers are also heard laughing and joking at a time when the bank was tottering on the brink of destruction. Irish bankers 'hoodwinked' government over bailout, secret recordings show 2013-06-24T10:11:40Z An infant in only a diaper tottered around them. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z He dragged himself from the bed, fastened his gown, put on his dark-blue slippers, grabbed his black walking stick, and, hand on railing, tottered down the stairs. Haruki Murakami: “Samsa in Love.” 2013-10-21T04:00:00Z Others are catching on quickly, while a rhythmically-challenged few totter in asymmetrical circles, content to avoid pileups. | Theater District: At Connolly’s in the Theater District, Les Bon Temps Rouler 2013-05-23T23:37:25Z While snooker's top-ranked players aren't exactly tottering around the table at this year's World Championship on walking frames, the average age of the 16 seeded players is 32. The Crucible's White knight 2013-04-22T06:48:01Z If one route embodies the tottering arithmetic of the franchise system, it is the east coast mainline. Nationalised rail is shunted into sidings as coalition tries to make sums add up on east coast line 2013-03-31T00:01:04Z At New York’s Fashion Week, women tottered on 4-inch heels through the snow to get to the tents to see designers’ newest collections. Northeast trying to get back on track after storm 2013-02-10T15:09:00Z In the first three quarters of 2012, as the euro tottered and fear gripped the global economy, M&A activity worldwide was 17.4% lower than in the same period of 2011. Mergers: Shall we? 2013-02-07T16:03:01Z The defendant understands he will be disqualified, that he is a totter with nine points and this carries a penalty of six. Craig Bellamy banned from driving and fined for motoring offence 2013-01-29T16:54:54Z They were forever tottering on the edge of a cliff. Atlético Madrid's facelift is complete. It's time to take them seriously 2013-01-21T15:30:47Z Other major European states, France and Germany in particular, see a new federal Europe with enhanced powers of fiscal oversight as essential to the long-term survival of the tottering euro. Cameron to Outline a Recast European Role for Britain 2013-01-17T01:49:01Z Today’s Egypt is beleaguered from a tumultuous transition and jaded from the tottering pace of change. No Celebration 2012-12-23T15:48:00Z Root was unbeaten on 31 at the close, having entered the fray on 119 for four when England's innings was tottering as ominously as the Christmas Jenga. Root and Prior dig in as tourists toil in spinners' stranglehold 2012-12-13T13:06:22Z Americans are drowning in unhealthy food and tottering under the obesity that that food - and lack of exercise - creates. Obesity rates fall in Philadelphia 2012-12-12T16:58:08Z Both the US and Britain have sent troops to Jordan in recent months to bolster the tottering regime and increase leverage in the Syrian civil war. The Gulf protection racket is corrupt and dangerous folly 2012-11-06T22:20:01Z The $275 million man lives for moments like the one Wednesday night, when the game and his team's season were tottering on a high wire between success and setback. A-Rod's October brings Snub Seen 'Round the World 2012-10-11T22:27:08Z The whole new edifice of bidding for rail franchises is tottering. This railway fiasco reveals all that's wrong with the Tories 2012-10-06T23:03:06Z As he tottered off to bring delight to Manchester City, Villa – who had admittedly not been much cop in the league under Mercer anyway – started to seriously struggle. The Joy of Six: big clubs in the lower leagues 2012-09-28T09:16:12Z Morgan Chase billions; leveraged buyouts and mortgage-backed securities and derivatives and stimulus packages, Bain Capital and the tottering euro and the Greek bailout. Opinion: Money, Money, Money. Can we talk about something else? 2012-09-15T19:45:13Z Michael Rosenberg of SI.com found another way to tiptoe around the dilemma of propping up a tottering national icon. Americans reluctant to crucify Lance Armstrong, a saint on two wheels 2012-08-25T19:00:01Z Ms. Brown tried to walk forward to greet him, but she started tottering. City Room: When Timothy Dolan Hugged Helen Gurley Brown 2012-08-14T21:58:57Z Ignominy on Two Wheels The secret can be traced to a few tottering rides in Lower Manhattan, with a father and his boy and the afternoons that eventually dissolved their patience. A Reporter Learns to Ride a Bicycle as an Adult 2012-08-10T13:49:47Z The apparent fickleness of global corporations makes clear what a tightrope the government is walking as it tries to stabilise a tottering economy. Will the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on itWill the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on it 2012-07-28T23:06:40Z Domestically, recent Supreme Court rulings greatly enhance the already enormous political power of corporations and the super-rich, striking further blows against the tottering relics of functioning political democracy. Noam Chomsky on post-legal America 2012-07-23T14:37:00Z That said, with the Russian economy tottering and highly dependent on oil prices remaining high, antagonizing the Gulf States — who essentially control the price of oil — could have serious repercussions for Moscow. Washington: Time To Dump Bashar, Moscow 2012-07-18T06:35:39Z There is a girl in high heels tottering along the verge, chatting on her iPhone. The radioactive trees of Chernobyl 2012-07-07T00:30:08Z Cities in California's Central Valley, such as financially tottering Stockton and other western metropolitan areas such as Colorado Springs, Las Vegas and Tucson continue to lag. U.S. recovery varies greatly by state, county, city 2012-06-27T21:32:21Z Alongside Europe's tottering mountain of debt lies a pit of intellectual emptiness. The eurozone's people are like prisoners in Colditz 2012-06-19T19:30:01Z The decision over the weekend to lend Spain $125 billion to shore up its tottering banking system is typical. Op-Ed Columnist: How Not to Solve a Crisis 2012-06-12T01:55:23Z The country's beaches, its sea and its weather remain unaffected by Greece's troubles and although the country's economic and political structure is tottering, its archaeology, of course, also remains intact. Give Greece a chance 2012-06-10T00:35:00Z After all, needs a massive bailout of its tottering banking system, including Santander, so familiar on every British high street, before the Greek election next Sunday. Europe will thrive. But we could be doomed to a life on the fringes 2012-06-09T23:07:14Z Evidence of a state tottering on the edge of complete dysfunction is apparent everywhere in Athens. Op-Ed Contributor: Postcards From Greece 2012-06-07T03:37:17Z The EZ is a tottering `House of Cards`, both in the literal & personality sense. The euro in crisis: Groping towards Grexit 2012-05-15T00:02:08Z The Roman Empire tottered to its fall, and floods of vice and sorrow overspread the world; but still the denunciations of the Fathers were unabated. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z After they had gone a considerable distance the earth heaved violently, and appeared to totter on its foundations. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Even we tottered on our foundations like unto the limbs of a man devoured by fever whose teeth chatter noisily. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z He supported his tottering power for many years by the influence of Madame de Montespan. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z And perhaps he was not really patching up his tottering cottage at all that night. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z He has the whole of the markets in his brain, he knows which of the clients of the bank are prosperous and which are tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z The cars are close and the trucks seem even closer, and other cyclists’ hurrying to work can make tottering around the lane on training wheels feel like an imposition. City Room: Soon, a Safe Place for Unsteady Bicyclists 2012-04-19T18:42:55Z The easel of time totters against invisible walls. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z It had been what he had seen through the gap—the chimney-stack all tottering, hooped out on one side like a barrel.... Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Sometimes I could for whole days together feel my very body as well as my mind to shake and totter under the sense of this dreadful judgment of God.... Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z Well, it is only a little pull that is needed to bring down a great weight when it is tottering and ready to fall. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z Sitting in a chair alongside my desk, he seemed to totter, to lean toward the sun coming in the window. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z They builded better than they knew, and to them rather than to the Innocents and the de Montforts did the hierarchy owe the restoration of the tottering edifice. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He tottered to the ladder that ran up into the loft. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Reason totters, and life beats uncertain at my heart. The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z He tottered towards it, and was glad to cast himself down upon it. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z Having had the strong right arm of a strong government for protection, it was now forced to stand alone, and it seemed for a while to totter, and almost to fall. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Yet Innocent’s doubts were removed by a dream in which he saw the Lateran Basilica tottering and ready to fall, and a man in whom he recognized the humble Dominic supporting it on his shoulders. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The Elder Yea, strengthen the knees of the tottering. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z "May I sit down, sir, for I feel very weak?" but before the permission could be granted, his knees tottered, and he fell in a faint on the floor. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Cannot even tottering age, and helpless infancy, arrest the fell purpose? A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z The tottering pillars of the women's choir have been replaced in the perpendicular, and the arches which they sustain are now shored up and strengthened. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Though St. Bernard was sick, the perilous condition of the tottering establishment aroused all his zeal, and he unflinchingly undertook the mission. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In another engraving we see Death, with exaggerated courtesy, handing to an open tomb an extremely old man just able to totter. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z I'm young and the head of a house that people knew was tottering when I took control. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z And through a fairyland of imagined admiration and regal rank, Betty tottered happily to the very end. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Her eyes were swollen with weeping; and, as she rose to meet her beloved mistress, she trembled and tottered from the weakness of agitation. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z His gait was a waddling, tottering progress, groping with his hands as he went, and often falling at the slightest impediment. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z They began to kill their camels, and, scarcely sustained by this food, they pushed on, their pace dwindling to a crawl, and then to a totter. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The house was obviously tottering; I did not think it would stand until I got control. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Old women, haggard and wrinkled, come tottering along with their scaldini of coals, drop down on their knees to pray, and, as you pass, interpolate in their prayers a parenthesis of begging. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He saw his world tottering, the scum and rabble overwhelming it, everything which he had loved, and in which he had lived, passing; he saw death waiting for him seven steps below, and he smiled. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z But the son has now left the father to totter on alone, and the daughter has outstripped the mother in the race. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Burke had only tottered a few miles from the hut. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Thus saying, for the first time, the gentle Alcyone passionately strained her arms around her husband; the pressure relaxed, he tottered forward; he was—alone! Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Few things are more touching than the passionate joy with which, in the reign of Nero, Seneca clung to it as the one refuge for the oppressed, the last bulwark of the tottering mind. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Do you think that now, Monsieur, when, after all these years, vengeance is in our hand and our persecutors are tottering, we will sit still and see them set up again? The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z But you turned the trick, all right, and saved my tottering reason,” he added, jovially. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z She tottered as if to fall, but regained her balance. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z Overcome with mingled emotions, Miranda, while she spoke, swayed visibly to and fro, and as if to support her, Eudæmon's arms fell on either side of her tottering figure. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z But if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys its faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or tottering edifice. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Syndic still stood smiling and bowing beside me; and on a sudden I saw the pit on the edge of which I tottered; and my face burned. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z And, unless we believe in supernatural revelation, we must admit that no religious tenets will ever suffice to prop up a tottering society. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z Presently an old, old man tottered into the room, leaning on the shoulders of his two stalwart grandsons. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z The warriors rushed together to defend the tottering tower and to repel the fierce assault. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z A mother stretches out her arms to receive her babe taking its first tottering steps, to welcome her prodigal, to protect those in danger, to help in every time of need. Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent 2012-03-23T02:00:31.917Z Upon the second crest, and in the cleft between the two, are huddled together the steep alleys and crazy tottering houses, all corners and gables, of the old town. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z In another moment she had tottered forward and was gathered to his heart, her tears falling like rain on his breast. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Fernando rose slowly to his feet, drew his long knife, and, tottering from weakness, approached the German spy. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z These fellows will rally around our banner the moment the government begins to totter. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z His white face, lit by a vast excitement, bid them a tremendous farewell, and he departed through the sunlight, with his buoyant walk, buoyant almost to the tottering pitch. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z We air--but with the caution due to convalescents, or those of tender years--our shaky, tottering French, and get English answers. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z My present assurance, and this chair's stability, is, I hope, as happy a sign of my future prosperity as its tottering proved unfortunate to the thief Li-Kong. The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Nearer and nearer to the edge of the precipice the four feet shuffled, until the guide actually tottered on the brink. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Otherwise, prolonged and systematic muscular exercise may remove the tottering walk. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Her long small face looked back at her gravely under the caliginous head-dress, as she shook her head from side to side, to make it totter and tilt. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Uncle Zeb Gale—Daddy Gale, who had long ago lost count of his grandchildren, they were so many—Ol’ Zeb tottered up from the sea, gasping and coughing, but broadly smiling in the intervals. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z "True, O Quang, but when this morning the great Li for the first time sat upon the golden throne of state, it trembled and tottered." The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Glaring askance at her, he tottered to the settle on the hearth and sat down on it, breathing heavily. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z We've only cries and tears and knees, which bend And totter as kings turn their eyes on us. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z Valeria held her hands to her cheeks, crying aloud, as she tottered and ran across the flowering fields. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Still tottering, he raised himself up, took his little daughter by the hand, and set himself to climbing the steep slope that led to the terrace. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z But if I lay hid, and took time for my ally, and being here while he stood still,--though tottering,--waited until he fell, what of my honour then? Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z |
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