Word: swinger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beard earned $17,938, and he has progressed steadily upward ever since. His official winnings so far this season are $50,993; his unflappable, mechanical game reminds some of his fellow pros of Ben Hogan. Doug Ford, for one, insists that "Frank is the most consistent player, the best swinger on the tour." Beard himself is not too sure. "I'm never going to beat Nicklaus when he's right," he says. "Jack is just too long...
...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
Beyond all this, the reader may well conclude that Disraeli's greatest gift was for acupuncture, which he practiced with matchless skill on all the pomposities of his era. He was a swinger for all seasons...
...largely to the board's four junior members-all economists, all appointed since 1961, all independent enough in word and deed to blur old liberal-conservative labels, flout traditions, flaunt new ideas. Dewey Daane, 48, a Harvard-trained former Treasury aide, likes to call himself a "neo-Keynesian swinger." His was the key vote in the board's 4-3 decision to raise the discount rate-the interest that the Fed charges member banks for borrowing-from 4% to its present 41% in December 1965. George Mitchell, 63, onetime director of finance for the State of Illinois, holds...
Effective grantsmanship feeds on itself. "When you are doing good research, you attract talented people," says Ohio Researcher John B. Galipault. "You become known as a swinger, and good graduate students want to work for you-then you have to keep them challenged." Once a school has the manpower and equipment, the next grant comes easier. "The rich are getting richer and the poor are going nowhere," says Berkeley's Silver...