Word: hiatus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plans to use the award to take a hiatus from his primary interest—neurology—and study education at Oxford University next year...
...Redline, complete with subdued mood lighting, cozy vinyl booths and, of course, free-flowing drinky-drinks. Since last spring, anywhere from three to 12 knitters have been gathering every Wednesday evening at the back of the bar for eats, drinks, good company and great stitching. After a brief summer hiatus, the Stitch and Bitch army is back, armed with circular needles, patterns galore and a glass or two of the choicest poisons...
United Nations arms inspectors will return to their work in Iraq on Wednesday after a four-year hiatus. Backed by a new Security Council resolution, the inspectors are equipped with new tools that should make inspections easier and a new guarantee of unfettered access that will make their job possible...
...Harvey didn’t stay away from the game at all. He worked a full-time job at a law firm during his hiatus, but after coming home at 6 p.m. he would eat a quick dinner and retreat to his game. Sometimes it would be alone at Brother Rice, shooting around on the floor he used to own. Other times he would participate in leagues around Chicago. The play was competitive, as the teams were stacked with once-famous or never-famous ex-college players who couldn’t abandon the game...
...returned to The Crimson a better man, I suppose, though I did injure my typing fingers since I hadn’t kept them in typing shape. Looking back, I’m glad the Ivy Presidents put me on that seven-week hiatus so I could re-enter the Harvard I had so clearly been ignoring due to my journalistic segregationist tendencies...