Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet spy, Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig WennerstrÖm sold the Russians some 160 of his nation's -ip defense secrets. The suavely handsome aviator, who held the secret rank of major general in the Red army, also spied on NATO, and during a five-year stint (1952-57) as an air attache in Washington handed his bosses information on the Polaris submarine, the Strategic Air Command, and U.S. nuclear weapons, which he was able to inspect on the assembly lines. Since his arrest a year ago, WennerstrÖm, now 57, has admitted most of the charges...
Always out of pocket and always complaining, like Beethoven, of his ill health (he had "overworked" his brain, he said, during a brief stint on the old New York Tribune and never recovered), Thayer labored for 40 years correcting dates, altering anecdotes and filling in the vast gaps in the Beethoven chronology. Because he could not find an English publisher, the Life came out, volume by volume, in German; by the time it appeared in English in 1920, it had long been regarded by scholars as a classic and its author had been dead for 23 years. Though long...
Owen was chairman of the History Department from 1946 to 1955, except for a two year stint as chairman of the committee on General Education. Often called one of the "quiet administrators," he led the Department during the difficult post-war days, when an influx of veterans swelled the enrollment of the College...
...most Villagey clothes-and cry loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked. I can't stand actors who sit around on their rumps waiting for Otto Preminger to come to them and say, 'I've seen your artistry. Nobody is going to see your artistry. You can always wait on table...
Eight years ago Mississipian Bill Higgs graduated from Harvard Law School with modest grades, unpretentious ambitions, and an unshaken faith in racism. He served an Army stint and disappeared quietly into a Jackson, Mississippi law practice. Today he is one of Washington's most militant lobbyists for integration, an attorney for SNCC, and the author of several titles of the present civil rights bill. As his close friend, Roy Wilkins, noted here last week: "When a Southerner changes, he's very thorough about...