Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and far-flung staff, including his parents, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned from a two-year stint as volunteers in Peru and now hold staff jobs at a Peace Corps training camp in Puerto Rico...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...
...Healthy Outlook. Three and a half years later, after a stint in Korea, Lloyd returned to the University of Texas to finish his law studies. Even before he graduated, he was summoned to the office of Senator Lyndon Johnson for an interview and subsequently hired as one of LBJ's administrative assistants...
...heir to the Baring banking fortune, a godson of the late King George V, and son-in-law of Lord Rothermere the press lord. He has all the marks of aristocracy: Eton, Cambridge (he dropped out after a year), wartime service in the Grenadier Guards, and a postwar stint with J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan before he became managing director of the family bank in 1947. Sent to Washington in 1959 as Britain's chief economic representative to the U.S., Lord Cromer won a reputation for entertaining well and reporting incisively. In 1960 Harold Macmillan appointed...
...contest is the first of a frightening two-week stint during which the Crimson will meet Ivy League powerhouses Penn and Princeton twice...