ROME—Italy tried to stem the rocketlike ascent of its borrowing costs, with lawmakers vowing to approve a key economic bill by Sunday and the president laying the groundwork for respected economist Mario Monti to lead an emergency government to steer the nation through the its debt crisis. ❋ Christopher Emsden (2011)
The $100 million, 1,012-foot needle will feature an indoor African lion park, four wedding chapels, a revolving restaurant, a glass-bottomed observation deck and a rocketlike thrill ride. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While the resounding defeat of Gary Condit absorbed much of the media attention Tuesday, Simon's rocketlike launch into California politics will play out for months -- if not years -- to come. ❋ Unknown (2007)
One of his dive buddies tried to grab him, and pumped up his own buoyancy to counter the first diver's negative buoyancy, at which point the first diver developed a problem with his air supply and panicked, and the second diver lost his grip and, now being very buoyant, commenced a rocketlike trajectory to the surface. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2006)
With my chin tucked tight, I lowered my head and aimed for his center, rocketlike. ❋ Coben, Harlan, 1962- (2001)
The key point is that it was extraordinary conditions, not rapidly growing small-sized firms, that accounted for the rocketlike returns. ❋ David Dreman (1998)
The muzzle belched a stream of flame at the field; the rocketlike backblast exploded a cloud of dust. ❋ CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS (1990)
Yet those distant fires and rocketlike blasts into the sky had a wavery blur. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
Then it came again -- green this time -- a light that shot up rocketlike toward the sky, then, bursting, dived to instant annihilation in the turbulant water. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
The most colossal imaginative human intelligence is able, in mind only, to range from one extreme of thought to another, to skip mentally from planet to planet, or tumble endlessly down a pit of eternity, or soar rocketlike into the galaxied canopy, or scintillate like a searchlight over milky ways and the starry spaces. ❋ Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 (1935)
Kiss's rise was rocketlike after the band scored a No. 1 hit with "Rock and Roll All Nite" in 1975. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Certainly Google's founding by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and its rocketlike ascent have been chronicled many times before - among others, in Randall Stross's "Planet Google" (2008), "The Google Story" (2005) by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, and "What Would Google Do?" ❋ Unknown (2009)
Down in the valley were dotted-light streets and illuminated, rocketlike minarets; at the far fringe of the night, toward Mojmilo hill, the pitch at the eljo soccer stadium was heartbreakingly green. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This projected him forward, rocketlike, nearly 50 feet, providing the thoroughbred with the lead necessary to secure the win. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He cites the last decade as proof: the tech stock bull market and subsequent bear market, Sept. 11, the real estate and credit bubbles and the deluge that followed, and the market's rocketlike rise since March. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Its acceleration, however, is not exactly rocketlike (0 to 62 mph in 10.7 seconds), and it runs out of steam at 113 mph.
a pit of eternity, or soar rocketlike into the galaxied canopy, or scintillate like a searchlight over milky ways and the starry spaces. ❋ Paramahansa Yogananda (1922)
