Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms are necessary to defend the free world, but arms alone are not enough. Hunger and hopelessness cannot be beaten with bullets and bombs; knowledge and skill, applied with understanding and compassion, are weapons we must use without stint if we are to win through...
With television and radio commitments Russell's income is already well up in five figures, and there is a three-month picture-making stint in Hollywood coming up "I'll never be conceited," he says. "I've just got something to sell and my job is to sell...
...second-rate public school focuses his aim; he picks the career of law because it is often so well paid. Social-climbing nimbly, he marries money, does a stint with the R.A.F. largely because some day "it might be very useful" to have a war record. After the war he is ready for his next big push: a seat in Parliament. Just shy of his goal, his wife discovers him renewing a wartime love affair. Hopelessly attached to her husband, Nancy Tarrant commits suicide...
...poor coal miner, Graves was born (1896) in Warrensburg Mo., left school to work in the mines at ten, switched to sheepherding, put in a stint in the Wyoming oilfields. But Graves was never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...
Fort Leavenworth in the early '30s was a well-run penitentiary, even if the prisoners seemed to run most of it themselves. Or, certainly, so Psychologist Donald Wilson remembers it from his three-year stint there as an investigator for the U.S. Public Health Service. In those days, Fort Leavenworth was the Government's No. 1 pokey for narcotics-law violators,* and Wilson's job was to study the relationship between drug addiction and crime in general...