chief thing

Mr. Peres bragged about landing Mr. Andersen in the pages of Details in his editor’s letter, not having done the very editor in chief thing of reaching out personally to Mr. Andersen to thank him.

I can admit it!—because it became the chief thing I had to care about whenever it was on, and sometimes it was on at the same time as a genuine TV masterpiece like Fleabag Season 2.

“I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous.”

In his opening pages, Russell affirms that “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

The chief thing to remember is that every member of Congress has a voice on education appropriations, and D.C. residents have long been clear-eyed regarding that congressional role.