Word: stints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave up only three runs and struck out four, although he tired in the late innings as he issued five walks, and often ran the count to 3 and 2. After a light workout Wednesday, and a rest yesterday, he feels fully recovered from his four inning relief stint Tuesday against Springfield...
After a short stint as managing editor of Vanity Fair beginning in 1920, he trained his sights on a number of topics and reported his findings to The New Yorker, Encounter, and several other periodicals...
...both disappointed men. One was Navy Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 52, already marked down in Navy legend as the best Secretary since the late James Forrestal. The other was James H. (for Hopkins) Smith Jr., 49, highly respected in the State Department for his two-year stint as International
...abroad. He went to work for United Press in London in 1939 right out of Oxford, where he was the first American undergraduate to head the Labour Club; he wore a sandwich board in front of No. 10 Downing Street in demonstrations against the Conservative government. After a short stint with U.P. he joined CBS as Berlin correspondent early...
...plays up his Brooklyn background ("I'm just a dumb guy from P.S. 13"). One of eleven children of a wholesale liquor dealer, he never got farther than P.S. 13, started with Goldman. Sachs as a $3-a-week porter's assistant. After a World War I stint in the Navy, he became a securities trader, a Goldman, Sachs partner in 1927, helped to run investment trusts, including Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., which proved to be a disaster. It fell from $232 to $2 after the 1929 crash. "Boy," says Weinberg, "that was a lesson...