Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected to the Party Central Committee, and in 1926 to the Politburo as a nominee. He has been a full member since 1935. Then he began his long stint as internal and foreign trade commissar, with the goal of raising the Soviet people's standard of eating...
...Texas with his father, a grading contractor who was helping to build the Rock Island Line. Art got a job as water boy at 25? a day. He worked on railroads on & off while finishing school, joined the U.P. as a shop helper. After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent...
While recuperating from his last year's stint of illness, Harlow did some scouting work for Brown last season...
...kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays him a dirty trick. "She smashed me koyte!" mourns Herbert. Back at Mom's he vengefully refuses to pay his wife's allotment, prefers instead to do an occasional stint in jail...
Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...