Word: easiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more actively, particularly in the sophomore and junior tutorial programs. The programs are now handled almost exclusively by graduate students. But the legislation defines senior thesis direction as part of the tutorial program and most professors who do agree to teach a tutorial have used this option as the easiest...
Where better than Maine, then, for a man to launch a dream-and a wind-driven cargo schooner? If fuel costs are to force America to retreat from the technological revolution wrought by the internal combustion engine, the first step backward is shortest, and easiest, and most welcome where there has never really been a wholehearted step forward. So it was that on a bright, late-summer day, farmers, fishermen and their families-6,000 of them in all-flocked to the ramshackle Wallace Shipyards in Thomaston (pop. 2,500) to cheer "that Ackerman boy" as his new two-masted...
Meantime, the street gives them a valuable apprenticeship in capturing the least captive of audiences. Pedestrians, after all, have their minds on bills and backaches rather than on Telemann partitas. With no investment in a ticket, they find it easiest to review a performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that...
...Congress and thus welcomes the Republican advice. The Republicans, on the other hand, are worried that Carter may continue to stumble so badly that he will be denied the nomination. The G.O.P. leaders do not want this to happen because they figure Carter would be the easiest candidate to beat...
...first and easiest impression of Parker-both on records and in performance-is of a spoiler, full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left...