Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon for the last time. For 40 minutes, the two men were alone in the Oval Office, sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain that had been struck, Agnew slipped away, and Nixon, looking more chipper and relaxed than he had in some time, was host to a state dinner for President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast...
...took 19 flights to lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne...
There are enough moments of small pleasure in this muddled enterprise to give it a kind of ruptured vitality. Director Yorkin's movies, like Start the Revolution Without Me, are chipper but erratic even at their best. Thief vacillates between unhurried suspense and the kind of comedy that is so subdued it seems almost cursory. Yorkin's genially offhand style makes the movie look a little like a TV pilot that got out of control...
...spectacular shot. Perched on an awkward angle off the green, Trevino lofted a 30-ft. chip that rolled into the cup to save a par. Nicklaus had bogeyed the 16th, Jacklin bogeyed both of the final holes, and the Merry Mexican, crying, "I'm the greatest chipper in the world!", became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer (1961-62) to win two straight British Opens. Although Nicklaus lost his glorious quest, Bobby Jones would agree that, on the bonnie Muirfield moors, both he and Trevino struck resonant tunes of glory...
Forgotten English. On their return to the U.S., Fecteau and Mary Ann were thin and wan, but doctors pronounced them reasonably fit. While Mary Ann was chipper and talkative, Fecteau was withdrawn. He had a hard time getting used to sunlight. "I've got to learn to talk to people again," he told one of his State Department escorts. After speaking to him on the phone, his daughter Sidnice had the same thought: "He hasn't spoken English for so lone he has forgotten...