Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet-Hero. In 1895 a frail, romantic poet renewed the call to freedom. He was José Martí, who had spent six months in ball and chain for such lines...
Behind this pretentious title stands a solemn, grey-streaked, 44-year-old newsman with an unusual list of references for the job. Nearly all of Howard Smith's professional career has been spent in radio and TV reporting, and nearly all of it abroad. He went to work for United Press in London in 1939 right out of Oxford, where he was the first American undergraduate to head the Labour Club; he wore a sandwich board in front of No. 10 Downing Street in demonstrations against the Conservative government. After a short stint with U.P. he joined...
...which the U.S. press takes inordinate pride. Most stories ran as straightforward accounts of the rubberneck tour, without qualifications, without reservations, without showing cautious awareness of the other Mikoyan, the calculating Russian emissary, who followed Tourist Mikoyan everywhere he went. Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, who spent six years in Moscow watching the Soviet's ways, filed Baedeker-like stories in which both the real Mikoyan and Salisbury's Moscow wisdom were invisible...
...tradition among air-faring folk. Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh spent years (1930-35) helping Dr. Alexis Carrel to perfect a "robot heart," a germ-free pumping device in which entire organs were kept alive outside the body...
...more than doubling their salaries with consulting fees-the academic form of moonlighting." Such moonlighting has its high price: "While in principle the professor still has more time than most professional men to spend at home, including the long summer vacation, much of this time in fact is spent either earning money to pay the plumber or working like a plumber." He mentions such mundanities, Riesman writes, "because I see a number of graduate students who doggedly insist on going into teaching because they feel that if they entered business they would condemn themselves to meanness and triviality...