Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their everyday lives. The ordinary gestures of masculine courtesy take on a grand sweeping quality, and the banality of names take on an almost ritualistic significance when the men in the group have to change their to join a band of partisans. One young man, in memory of his stint as a choirboy, picks the name Requiem--a poignantly appropriate choice, as later events reveal...
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1923. Bush remained as an instructor and tutor until 1927. Following a 10-year stint at the University of Minnesots, Bush returned to teach at Harvard until his retirement...
...amounting to a conflict of interest: the EPA recently awarded a $7.7 million cleanup contract to a company accused of being a polluter in its own right--a company represented by Denver attorney James Sanderson. Sanderson, who is currently being investigated by the FBI, recently finished a 15-month stint as a part-time consultant to Burford...
Bernstein in speaking from his cramped Science Center office, where he is now safely ensconced as the newest full professor in the Math Department. He is doing general research, as well as teaching a graduate course on p-adic fields. He arrived at Harvard this semester, following a stint as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and his emigration from the Soviet Union in the summer...
...however, when he faced something he had never before attempted: writing a television script. After turning out eight hefty novels and several plays, Wouk found that adapting The Winds of War to the small screen was something he could learn only by doing. Not even his five-year stint of writing radio gags for Comedian Fred Allen in the 1930s prepared him for the task, except that then, as now, he was writing for someone else. "I've come full circle, once again collaborating with someone more sophisticated, more professional than I am in terms of this medium...