Word: overnighter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After finishing law school, Bennett found another mentor in Charles Frankel, a Columbia philosophy professor who became president of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and hired Bennett as his executive director. One spring morning in 1979, Bennett arrived for an overnight visit with Frankel and his wife at their mansion in Bedford Hills, New York, but he hadn't even unpacked his bags before he was called away on urgent business. That night, the Frankels were murdered by burglars, who were caught and found to have been high on amphetamines...
...composure, there was no disgrace in the defeat. Asked last Wednesday if playing in three competitions might be too much, Hingis, whose game is ahead of her English, replied, "Well, I am young, and, as I say, I enjoy to play tennis. But I will think about to stay overnight here, so I don't have to go back [to Manhattan]." Then, as she does after every reply, Hingis laughed...
...grunts and silences and knows when they mean no. "I have never seen Dick move Bill on an issue," says Wright. "I watched him propose positions, like a no-tax pledge, that would have been fabulously popular, but Bill said no. Dick huffed out of the room, pouted overnight, then came back with a way to minimize the damage. But he always accepted that Bill wouldn't budge...
...learned that Pepsi's biggest bottler, Argentina's B.A.E.S.A., was rotten with financial problems--this coming on the heels of accounting shenanigans with Pepsi Bottling of Puerto Rico. And last week Pepsi's sad summer seemed to reach its nadir in Venezuela, the company's showcase South American market: overnight and without notice, Pepsi's independent (to say the least) bottler switched 18 plants and 2,500 trucks to archrival Coca-Cola, a midnight move that will cost Pepsi some $400 million in sales and $10 million in profits according to analysts if the defection cannot be reversed by Venezuela...
...makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside...