Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...R.and R."−rest and recreation−is a term that has slipped into the vernacular from military usage. There is a certain aptness in using the term to describe the New York City writing stint that TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager is undertaking as part of a home leave. Though still hard at work, Prager is taking a well-deserved break from 14 relentless months of observing first-hand the Middle East's most savage internecine conflict. Says Prager: "Beirut was always the place where one took a plane to cover a story somewhere else. The change...
After a six-hour stint in the stifling heat and insect-laden atmosphere of the jungle lake, the cayuco returned to one of the two Noah II base camps, a collection of palm-thatched, open-sided huts at the top of a hill that is still 200 ft. above the surface of the rising water. There the caged animals were placed in the shade and fed bananas. Then, late in the afternoon, Walsh and his helpers loaded the cages into boats and cruised up one of the more than 30 rivers that feed into the Bayano Dam reservoir. Far upstream...
When all this glitter is draped over a strong story line, the effect is impressive. Lorna is a powerful vision of a woman's physical and mental collapse at an out-of-the-way Mexican resort. Nor does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...
Daly, who will resign in July ending a five-year stint in the community affairs office, cites in the conclusion to his report as the problems that remain for Harvard and the community the further improvement of the Cambridge schools and reduction in their cost; strengthening the Cambridge police; and examining the structure, effectiveness and cost of the city government...
Reems's one-day acting stint in "Deep Throat" took place in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court required that a film, to be pornographic, had to be without redeeming social value...