Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questionnaire given at my termination conference, we were asked to note periods of particular elation or depression over the two-year stint. What emerged, however, was "no pattern whatsover." Rather than a neatly oscillating curve of ups and downs, what seemed to characterize the attitudes of the volunteers I knew was a new way of looking at the world. From all the evidence, we were great idealists before reaching our assignments and great cynics afterwards. Not all of the change was due to disappointment. A good deal of it, I think, was simply growing...
...CRIMSON reporter who wasn't supposed to be there quietly took notes. When National Student Association leaders emerged from 20 hours of soul-searching in a Washington, D.C. motel, our reporter was waiting for them. And our new printing press and new library prove that we don't stint at home either...
Actually Corris swam in the opening medley relay win, but that 100-yard breaststroke stint was supposed to be the first easy step towards his gradual recuperation...
...muffled by yellow masks impregnated with chemicals to protect them against air polluted by nearby petrochemical plants. In Tokyo, where smog warnings were issued on 154 days last year, policemen in ten heavily polluted districts return to the station house to breathe pure oxygen after each half-hour stint on traffic duty in order to counteract the effects of breathing excessive amounts of carbon monoxide...
...brass, and until she was spotted for the Dodge Rebellion by Don Schwab, Hollywood producer for Manhattan-based advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, she was virtually unknown. Pam was under contract to Warner Bros, and MGM, made a few pilot films for TV, and did a stint as a dancer in Tony Martin's nightclub act, but her career was going nowhere. The Dodge Rebellion revolutionized all that. Last year she earned $34,000 plus residuals for making great televised escapes. This year she asked for and got $60,000, plus residuals. And she has just completed...