Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Football, as the pros go at it, is a game of special brilliance, played by brilliant specialists. A great golfer strives for versatility: to master the controlled hook, the chip-and-run, the wedge pitch, to learn a dozen uses for each of the 14 clubs in his bag-and gnaws his nails in frustration. But a good offensive tackle knows a dozen devastating ways to accomplish just one mission-block. He even went to college to learn that. In pro football, nothing is left to chance: a single play may have 100 variations, each fashioned as meticulously...
...Gaulle has brought into his Cabinet a new covey of experts, many of them young (five are 40 or under), whose versatility and expertise constitute a Seine-side New Frontier. Many have survived the rigorous 28-month course at the Ecole Nationale d' Administration (ENA), a blue-chip finishing school for civil service comers that was founded by De Gaulle in 1945 to supply the government with resourceful, apolitical technocrats. Others are lawyers, economists, businessmen, bankers...
...since they were hired, they have surveyed the same un-romantic-sounding beat: Europe's Common Market. But by their authoritative reporting of the political and economic experiments that are changing Europe, they have made the daily blue-green bulletins of Agence Europe required reading for a blue-chip list of more than 2,000 subscribers from Iceland to Japan...
...started since World War II. The galleries come in all shapes and sizes, vary in their wares from old masters to the much-publicized "pop art" to flagrant fakes. No one knows exactly how many galleries there are: nearly 200 were listed in Art News this month. The blue-chip galleries, however, whether young or old, way out or traditional, can almost be counted on the fingers of five hands...
...from 1955 to 1961; of bleeding peptic ulcer; in Manhattan. An aloof man of utmost rectitude, Resor opened Thompson's Cincinnati office in 1980s and eight years later bought the firm from its namesake; shunning the flashy sell, his agency turned out solid, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford and Eastman Kodak, thrived on scientific surveys and the negative commandments-no whisky ads, no relatives on the payroll...