Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter's government experience includes a stint as Director of the $4 billion a year Foreign Operations Administration. Recently, he served as vice-President Nixon's Administrative Assistant...
...wants to get back to the classics she has had to neglect for so long, and to learn Spanish. Dr. Jordan wants more free time with her second husband, retired Investment Banker Penfield Mower, and to get to Boston Symphony concerts. And she will have a tough stint as a six-day-a-week columnist for King Features Syndicate. Appropriately, her first "Health and Happiness" column for next week begins: "Let's face it: old age must be lived and lived with...
...only one of England's best novelists (The Conscience of the Rich), but a topnotch literary critic to boot. He can feel just as comfortable enmeshed in American letters as in those of his own country, and is often invited by U.S. universities for a lecture stint...
...Chile's paper monopoly, ran it on the no-nonsense theory that what is good for the company is bound to be good for the workers, made both himself and his employees prosperous. Aside from a term as a Santiago Congressman when he was 30 and a dutiful stint as Finance Minister in 1947-50, he steered clear of politics until last year, when he became convinced that Chile had to be saved from politicians. Businesslike as ever, he ran for a Santiago Senate seat...
...gifted comedian, but not in the Lindy stand-up-and-knock-'em-dead sense. His comedy is low pressure and has to be, if it is to be tolerated on a nightly 1¾-hr. show. "Nine hours a week," says one awed performer of Paar's stint. "My God, that isn't overexposure, it's practically nudism." But Paar seems to have found the formula for beating the dreaded "overexposure" problem...