Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craft by aiming low, like a sniper at a grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills. Like a sleek, knowledgeable hooker, Vice Squad delivers...
...after Harvard killed off a high-sticking penalty to Brian Busconi, a shorthanded stint that included a deflection wide and a great stick save by Lau on Eagle forward Jeff Cowles, the referee lowered the boom on Litchfield, who had just unintentionally lowered the boom on B.C. forward Gary Sampson...
...that Sampson had turned into the stick and Litchfield's legal check became a wooden choker for Sampson. Never mind that calls like that aren't supposed to happen on home ice or that nobody ever calls that one a major. Litchfield was whistled off for a five-minute stint in Darryl Petit's favorite playpen, and when he came back, Harvard's 2-1 lead had become a 3-2 deficit...
Credit for his charges' development rests squarely on the acumen of Barnaby, resident sage of Hemenway who was given the reins of the women's program three years ago after a 33-year stint handling...
...probing of his own to find out what it was like to fly the shuttle (said Truly: "We were just getting the hang of it" when the flight ended). Next day the astronauts started nine days of more formal debriefings, answering the questions of their engineering colleagues, doing a stint in the flight simulator to check whether it accurately reflects what happens in space, and reporting to the space center's director, Christopher Kraft Jr. The preliminary verdict: in spite of problems before and during the flight, Columbia was, in that venerable NASA expression...