Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personification of success. Son of the board chairman of Tiffany's, he pursued an impeccable education. Although he was bounced from two private schools, he nevertheless managed to acquire a diploma from Hotchkiss, a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton, with a three-year stint as a Marine Corps lieutenant in between to sober him up. The aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled...
...were Correspondent Gisela Bolte, our German economics specialist, and Stringer Burton Pines, who is working for a doctorate in modern German history. European Economic Correspondent Robert Ball, stationed in Zurich, came to Bonn for the story; Ball is an old German hand who had put in an eleven-year stint in Munich and Berlin...
...belts corrode and uniforms and boots can rot within a week. Finding adequate amounts of dry land for base camps will also be a problem. A good rest area is essential: even the long-inured Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip...
...Michigan's undefeated varsities in 1932 and 1933. As a senior in 1934, he was voted the most valuable player on the squad. And he paid part of his expenses at Yale Law School by serving as assistant football coach and freshman boxing coach. In 1948, following a stint in the Navy and two years of law practice in Grand Rapids, Ford ran for Congress from Michigan's fifth Congressional District. He won with the backing of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the G.O.P.'s leading advocate of a bi-partisan foreign policy, and he remains faithful to "modern realistic internationalism...
...list of bestsellers, and made stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young men (19 to 26) called the New Vaudeville Band. Ed Sullivan put them on his show when they arrived in the U.S. on tour recently, and Johnny Carson grabbed them for a Tonight stint. Even Walter Cronkite, who heard that the seven-piece band was appearing in a New York borscht belt hotel called the Pines, chased upstate after the boys on the day after Thanksgiving to do a bit on them for his news program...