Word: upstart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's because love of a different sort took hold of me instantaneously. As I was reading the Kansas City Star on my grandparents' front porch, I noticed an item about an upstart 100-watt radio station called KCMO. I knew immediately I wanted to work there. After auditioning by reading articles I'd adapted from the Star, I was hired as a newsman and sports announcer. So I scratched my plans to reunite with my would-be flame in Illinois...
DIED. HANK STRAM, 82, innovative football coach and winner of more games than anyone in the history of the American Football League (AFL); of complications from diabetes; in Covington, La. He took the Kansas City Chiefs to the first Super Bowl, where the upstart AFL champs were trounced by the mighty Green Bay Packers. Three years later, he led the Chiefs to an upset victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, helping to cement the legitimacy of the fledgling...
...York City, 1928. Sir Thomas Beecham, the prickly British baronet and conductorial autodidact, was making his American debut in a concert with the New York Philharmonic. So was Horowitz. Beecham was apparently not about to let some upstart, unknown Russian steal his thunder, even if the piece was Tchaikovsky's thunderous Piano Concerto No. 1. Horowitz was unable to speak English, but it was clear from the rehearsals that even a translator would be no help. "Beecham thought I was of no importance," the pianist remembers. At the concert, the conductor adopted an even more ponderous tempo than during...
...this age of soaring oil prices, hedging has become a crucial part of business for the most successful airlines--the smaller, upstart carriers that aren't burdened by the legacy costs of the old majors. Since energy is usually an airline's second highest cost (after labor), any tweaks in fuel costs or use can turn into big savings. All the major airlines have hedged fuel prices since the 1980s, but as the major carriers have run into financial difficulties in recent years, they have no longer had the cash--or the creditworthiness--to play the oil-futures market. Last...
Just a little time for the pieces of a new coaching staff, a veteran defensive corps, and a young, upstart offense to fall into place...