Word: puttering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Talk about determination. In the midst of the Clarence Thomas political war, George Bush took to his new putting green on the South Lawn, and armed with his 48-in. Pole-Kat putter, he launched a ferocious assault on the flag...
Golf today is not the same game that First Putter Dwight Eisenhower played in the 1950s. Back then, says David Ferm, publisher of Golf Digest, "it was perceived as a game for fat, rich, old white guys." Today 40% of the 2 million newcomers are women, and club pros see an increasing number of African Americans and Hispanics concentrating on 10-ft. putts. Golf is also appealing to a younger crowd. And it shows. Myrtle Beach, S.C., for example, has evolved from a secluded, two-course resort town into a family golfing Mecca with 49 public and ten private links...
...books. As a child I couldn't understand, since his name was the same, why we weren't related. He was a maximalist, and that's what I admire. Somebody once told him to take out all that was not necessary. And he said, "No. I'm a putter-inner." And that's what I am, a putter-inner...
...perhaps, to a man who had never seemed at home amid the panoply of godhood. Instead of the ornate Imperial Palace, Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...
While most economists think the U.S. will be able to putter along without a recession for at least another year, they see the hazard as increasingly difficult to avoid. Says Jerry Jordan, chief economist at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles: "Things are going to get very dicey in 1989. It will be the worst of all worlds." Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors: "This is the first time in perhaps six years that the word recession is in my vocabulary, and I don't take the word lightly. I see one starting late...