Word: lineup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York Herald Tribune, later of the New York Times; Andy Rooney, then with Stars and Stripes; and Ed Murrow, the incomparable voice of CBS News. Murrow was stunned when Cronkite turned down an offer to become one of Murrow's Boys, as the CBS all-star lineup was called. Cronkite preferred the all-news-all-the-time sensibilities...
...might be correlated, in part, with the advice of a batting or pitching coach, but not with the more bureaucratic manager. It’s true that a manager does make strategic decisions about how to use that talent; the foundation of his job description includes fitting together a lineup and deciding when to make mid-game substitutions, especially of the pitcher. But while strategic decisions may turn the tide in one or two games, they’re hardly enough to mean the difference between a good team and a bad team over the course of a season...
This fall the company will expand its lineup to include precision underpants. Yes, go ahead and reread that. Chung said the underpants will feature similar compression technology, which sounds kind of painful. But fear not, she assured me. They are designed to keep men comfortable and keep their precision parts cooler. "That area of a man is meant to be 1º colder than the rest of the body to optimize fertility," she said. Fertility is not my problem, I said. "It'll also give you a perkier rear end," she said. I agreed to test a sample in September...
They should have known better. "People should realize by now that at Montreux, the word jazz covers all kinds of other styles of music," says Nobs. He still programs plenty of the purest genre: this year's lineup includes pianists Monty Alexander and McCoy Tyner and guitarists John Scofield and Bill Frisell. And irrepressible blues miracle B.B. King will be around again, despite announcing that his last appearance, in 2006, was to have been his last...
Hong Kong Disneyland - the beleaguered park that has drawn underwhelming reviews for its thin lineup of attractions - needed a lifeline. On Tuesday it got one, when the Hong Kong government and Walt Disney executives reached a deal to expand Disney's second Asian theme park over the next five years in an attempt to boost sales and stand up to competitors. (See pictures of theme parks in China...