Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooke is relaxed and unruffled on a vote-getting stint, and he strolls into a cafeteria full of people as if he were about to sit down and do a day's office work right there in the middle of it all. He literally runs from one table to another and grabs every hand in sight...
...Living. Murphy fell into art backward. After a stint in U.S. Army aviation during World War I, he tried studying landscape architecture at Harvard-and found the required drawing course a dreadful bore. So he and his wife Sara sailed to the expatriate paradise of Europe. There, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys became "masters in the art of living." Since the wine and the wit were always right, Stravinsky came to dinner, Léger showed them Paris night life, and Diaghilev invited them to his ballet...
...typical day called for an early morning handshaking stint at a couple of MTA stations, some campaigning in the Roxbury area, a tour of a clothing factory, winding up the morning at the John Hancock building and with its 5200 employees. The afternoon was devoted to personal administrative matters and the evening was taken up by several rallies and a fund raising champagne dinner...
...worked for a couple of years, and then entered the University of Texas. Just before he was to graduate in 1939, he quit and went to work for Lyndon Johnson, then a bright young second-term Congressman. He has worked for Lyndon ever since, except for a four-year stint in the Army, which he entered as a private and left as a Quartermaster Corps captain after serving in North Africa and Italy. Even when he ran for Congress, from Texas' 13th District in 1951, it was at Lyndon's behest. Jenkins finished second in a field...
...graduated from Munich's Technische Hochschule in 1934. Because he was a Jew, he was not allowed to continue his studies. He spent two years in Switzerland, came to the U.S. in 1936, got his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1939, was naturalized in 1944. After an eight-year stint at the University of Chicago, he became Harvard's Higgins professor of biochemistry...