Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson is headed by Romer Holleran, finally back on the squad after a three-year stint in the army and a term of ineligibility...
Brown's Eastern trip, which also includes a stint before a Congressional committee in Washington, is billed as non-political, but Brown, a Roman Catholic, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic vice-Presidential nomination...
...with independence only two years away, Minh transferred to the newly formed Vietnamese army with the grade of major. After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits. He also helped Diem in his campaign to subdue two fanatic, rebellious religious sects, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai. After a second training tour abroad-this one at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he picked up serviceable English-Minh...
...funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed to show up, found his mind tuned to an "inner state of balance"-whatever that is. "The experience," he wrote after he recovered, "is dreamlike, and the pianist tries to resist waking...
...Hornung was taping a series of 130 five-minute radio interviews and sports commentary that will be broadcast by 22 stations in four states; he has also started a 13-week series of pro football talks for a Louisville TV station. And last week he began another radio stint as commentator on local high school games. But will Expert Hornung try to predict winners? "Oh, absolutely not," he groans. "You know, I did that once...