Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked without stint in P.A.C. He held the dissonant factions together and patiently built it into a potent political machine. He was its guide, strategist and catalyst...
Dogged Manitoban farmers know that Garson, who came into the premiership after a tight-fisted stint as provincial treasurer, is no spendthrift. If he was convinced that now was the time to splurge and make Manitoba a more prosperous province, they" were ready to give him what he wants...
...failed to find one that suited him. Disappointed, he served a brief stint on the family newspaper, then went to Manhattan to try his hand at advertising. Another youngster named William Benton, a year older but four years richer in experience, hired him to write trade-paper ads for the old Batten agency at $25 a week...
...President hopefully addressed the nation: "I know the conscience of the American people will not permit them to withhold or stint their cooperation while their fellow men in other lands suffer...
...China, where he began a four-year stint in 1938, he won friends and influenced people for Britain at a time when his country's stock was painfully low. His hilltop home overlooking Chungking was a haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality...