Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short stint, however, as McCaffrey realized she wanted more out of her work. "I didn't have that great a voice," she says. "i wanted a regular paycheck...
After graduating in the middle the 1949-50 school year, Mack did a stint in the insurance business before joining a daily newspaper in Albany, N.Y. Mack says he had not had any newspaper experience before graduating. Two years after working in Albany, he joined UPI, a wire service, and became its correspondent at the state Capitol...
...getting dirty and gritty...oooo macarena! Let's admit one thing right off the bat: summer has changed, and not just because we're no longer 11 years old and looking forward to three months' worth of unadulterated goofing off, give or take a summer-school session or a stint at an overly rigorous sleep-away camp making lanyards for The Man. Once upon a time, for kids and adults alike, the season's operative word was languor; today it's grosses. Because summer itself, like the movies to which the season lends its name as adjective, has got bigger...
...good 10 minute walk away, and every day I made the trek. Some days I bought frozen yogurt, other days ice cream sundaes; I even sampled all the variations of the 'Blast' drink series. I knew all of the flavors in the store. By the end of my stint working for this campaign, I became convinced that I ought to work at Baskin-Robbins, since I could better advise customers on selections than the store's own staff. Ice cream is an odd drug of choice, especially for me. It's not as if I live in Florida. Oh, wouldn...
DIED. URAL ALEXIS JOHNSON, 88, U.S. diplomat; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nearly as enduring as the mountain range after which he was named, Johnson's career spanned more than four decades and encompassed ambassadorships to Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Japan, a stint as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs during the Cuban missile crisis and service as chief U.S. negotiator under Nixon at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks...