Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to become a contestant on Jeopardy!, candidates must pass a written exam. Then, "they play a mock Jeopardy! game and participate in a brief interview," Laine T. Sutten, spokesperson for Jeopardy! told The Crimson in December...
Tomorrow evening the White House will escape the pressures of scandal and war with a brief foray into American history...
...Starr, and conservative Republican Senators Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's loudest critics. Sentelle and Helms have denied discussing Starr's appointment. By that time Starr had nearly entered the Virginia Republican Senate primary that Oliver North eventually won, and had considered writing a Supreme Court brief supporting Paula Jones' argument that her case should be allowed to go forward while Clinton was in office. Citing questions about his fairness, the New York Times called for Starr to resign almost as soon as he was appointed...
Because of their brief reportorial careers, Lewis and her sister know many celebrities. Lewis, who has a place in a tony apartment building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue across from Central Park, was not above dropping her daughter's job to impress. When Kevin McDonough, the editor of her book The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, told Lewis he was leaving New York City to do some work in Washington, Lewis told him, "My daughter works at the White House. She can give you a tour...
...definition I gave my son elicited a brief "Eeww," followed by a thoughtful silence. About right, I figured. Infinitely more difficult is gauging what's about right on this topic for readers of TIME FOR KIDS, which goes to 1.7 million schoolchildren. While other journalists rushed feverishly to cover this too-juicy story, my staff and I weighed the pros and cons of ignoring it entirely...