Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead Work." Lou Stark, born in Hungary and brought to the U.S. as a child, grew up on Manhattan's East Side, joined the Times as a reporter in 1917, after a stint at schoolteaching and as a City News Association reporter...
...answers Ferris can dredge up are corroded with hate and futility. He loathes his job, is desperately weary of the daily stint on the office treadmill. He detests his pretentious "neo-Georgian" home in Oakdale, a genteel Midwestern suburb. Most of all he hates "the goddamn blood-drinking octopus" he married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh...
After his twelve-hour stint in the steel works, Yuan was expected to sit in at meetings lasting from three to ten hours. Soon, to keep going, he was taking five injections of glucose a month. Said Yuan to a Communist reporter: "From last December until May, I slept only three hours a day, sometimes five hours, sometimes not a wink except a nap over the desk...
After a wartime stint in the Navy (he came out a lieutenant commander), May was made vice president and secretary of the May Company. Three years ago he became manager of Famous-Barr's $3,000,000 new store in suburban Clayton, and last year the $100,000-a-year general manager of the company's two St. Louis stores. As president of the 24-store, nine-city May chain, Buster will boss an operation that last year had record sales of $417 million. Said father Morton J. May, 67, who is stepping up to chairman: "He likes...
After a World War I stint in the Navy (he enlisted as a 2nd class cook, ended up a special agent for the War Trade Board), Weinberg became a securities trader. In seven years he had enough money ($104,000) to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1927 became a partner in Goldman, Sachs. As Weinberg's fame as a shrewd judge of stocks and men spread through the Street, so did his influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental...