Word: chips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering effects of the 2004 car crash that put him into a coma for a week and left one of his vocal cords paralyzed. "Most kids my age probably haven't heard of CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program," he says in a voice that sounds weak and stressed. "But I know all about it, because if it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today...
Sheldon said the momentum of the round shifted when she made a nice chip and one-putted the 14th hole...
...that sharp and have it all come together,” Sheldon said. “It was just my day.” According to Sheldon, the momentum of the round shifted during the 14th hole, which she one-putted after a nice chip. On Saturday, Sheldon did not miss a single green. “What Claire did was probably the highlight of the weekend,” Rhoads said. “She punctuated the end of our first round, and I was very happy for her.” Sheldon’s second-round score...
...goal: a 10-min. mile (fear not, olympians). Wearing a pair of Nike Plus running shoes, I wind along a tree-covered Oregon trail, glancing at my iPod nano every few strides. I wish that little chip in my Nikes would malfunction. It's telling the nano my pace, and the nano in turn is taunting me: a 10-min. 30-sec. clip, with about another half a mile to go. I sprint--and almost die--near the finish. One mile completed, the nano screen reads. My time: 9min. 42sec. Yes! Cue the Chariots of Fire music...
...they are overseas. And it’s not as if Parisians are just too impolite, too hostile, to support local groups. In fact, they’re a little too nice. Jazz, no matter its quality, gets standing ovations. And at a show by British dance outfit Hot Chip (pronounced by the Francophones around me as “Haute Sheep,” which I think is probably a better name), the Parisian crowd was anything but rude, cheering after every song, infuriatingly permissive of the band’s mere half-hour set and refusal to play...