Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opens her mouth. If the tune has a bounce, her slim Irish face lights up and her trim, spring-legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...
Ever since the French Foreign Legion was formed (1831), Germans have provided its largest national group. After World War II, many German prisoners of war in North Africa signed up for a five-year stint in the legion rather than return to shattered Germany. Legion service protected some from trial as war criminals...
...painter, always travels with him. They have an apartment in Milan and, when possible, go to the mountains in summer. But he does not expect to have a vacation until 1954. He will take the Boston Symphony into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Then comes a stint with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, followed by four weeks with Dimitri Mitropoulos' New York Philharmonic-Symphony. On his spring & summer conducting schedule: London and Salzburg...
...factor of conditioning is not inconsiderable. While some men will be eclipsed by the new ruling, others will find Fall Saturday afternoons much more rigorous. It is obvious that full-time performance requires a great deal more endurance than does a ten-minute stint...
...another act of Christmas charity, the President granted pardons to former Democratic Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky and New Jersey's Republican ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas. May served nine months in prison for accepting bribes during his World War II stint as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Thomas, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, served nine months for taking salary kickbacks from his congressional office staff. Both men have been free since September 1950, but the presidential pardon restores their citizenship rights...