Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...N.F.L. history to win that many games within one decade.) As it happens, there is no great secret to his success: in his own words, it is "singleness of purpose." Says he: "Basically I'm shy, but I can talk to people or go on television okay by concentrating on the subject. That's what happens in a ball game. I just shut everything else out." To hear others tell it, he does the same thing before and after a game. Says Owner Robbie: "From July until the end of the draft, that man devotes every waking moment...
...Neill's optimism was typical of Moakley's coordinators throughout the evening, despite discouraging reports from several precincts that unexpectedly favored Hicks. "That's okay, the results aren't really enough to go by," one coordinator sighed unflinchingly as he continued explaining Moakley's program to a crowd of reporters...
More than most performers, Seeger wants to get his audience to sing with him. And he likes to get them to do harmonies. "Okay," he says, "all you folks with the high voices sing like this...And you with the low voices, you can go like this." In a way, it's as if he longed for the voices of the old Weavers to echo in front of him. More likely, his real desire is to get people to enjoy themselves, and to give them that religious feeling of fraternity which he (correctly) feels they want...
Screams. Then Burt Zien, the Milwaukee plumbing and heating tycoon who had organized the affair, took over. "Okay, you fellas know why you're here," he began. He painted a sorry picture of McGovern's finances and stepped up the pressure: "He needs money fast?very fast. He has to tie down television time and pay travel bills. Soliciting pledges through the mail and collecting them takes too much time. What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral...
...have to hibernate for half of each year to reduce demands on resources. A color spread shows how the oft-decried weathering of classical statuary can actually improve its aesthetic impact. Poet-Novelist David Slavitt modernizes Virgil's Georgics in irreverent slang that gives it surprising contemporary relevance ("Okay, Maecenas, whatever you say; farming it is: hints for happier cornfields...