Word: stinted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...compare him to Johnny Depp," says Lee's partner, Sam Kitt. "His pictures haven't all performed well, but his talent is widely acknowledged." Apart from supporting bits in silly sequels to Scream and Major League, he has top billing in two HBO movies and had a stint on ER's 1996-97 season. "He's still young, but Omar brings a real maturity to his roles," says Danny Glover, who produced the HBO docudrama Deadly Voyage, which starred Epps. In Love & Basketball, Epps found a feature-film role literally tailor-made for him. With Epps in mind, director Gina...
...wafting stench of Corona and sweat smacks you across the face, open beer bottles are shoved into your pasty palms. Price, one lowly dollar. Message: you are in Cancun. Forget Harvard and party. Spring-breakers eager to get a head-start on their one week stint into a college student's paradise dish out a few bucks for the cold brew as they board a charter bus from Cancun International Airport to their hotels. The bus driver, a rotund Mexican, safeguards the remaining beer in a red picnic cooler. He's saving it especially for the World Class representatives, employees...
After his stint in government, Chayes worked for an international law firm for a short time, before returning...
What does a man embrace from so varied a set of masters? In the KGB, says Stepashin, who also served a stint running its successor agency, you learn some useful presidential habits. Speak less, listen more. Don't form hasty conclusions. If you decide, decide. Calculate your responses. Don't betray your own. Putin, he says, "applies these principles to life in general." But a dedicated ex-agent admits that the system drills in some less positive unwritten rules. Don't say anything you don't need to say. Be underestimated. Putin, says this former spy, "will apply the same...
Ultimately the Navy relented and found her an open slot in the surface school. After graduating, McGrath flourished aboard the Navy's fleet of support vessels. She served on four different ships from 1983 to 1994, including an 18-month stint as a commander of a salvage ship. Onshore she earned a master's degree in education from Stanford. Still, by the early 1990s she was beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships...