Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Krag decided not to concentrate in music, she did a short stint in anthropology and then, at the end of her sophomore year, switched into the biology department. Being a pre-med and a musician doesn't seem to cause any internal conflicts--she grew up with both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...found a wife and contentment as the Flyers won their divisional championship the first year. But Parent's wanderings had only begun. In 1971 the Flyers traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he became a protégé of Plante, then the Toronto goalie. That stint ended 18 months later when Parent bolted the Leafs to sign with the World Hockey Association's Miami Screaming Eagles. The only trouble was that Miami had no rink. "The only ice," recalls Parent, "was in a glass...
Neier, who is not a lawyer, was picked to lead the A.C.L.U. in 1970, following a six-year stint as head of the New York affiliate. By then, the 55-year-old civil liberties group had already begun to move away from its strictly legal approach. In the past, the A.C.L.U. had generally entered a civil liberties case by filing a brief as amicus curiae (friend of the court). In 1968 the organization turned to more direct action; its attorneys served as defense lawyers in the Spock conspiracy trial. In the face of internal disagreement, A.C.L.U. activists convinced colleagues that...
...goalie as a farm boy in rural Quebec (his peers would not let him play offense because of his size), he was invited to a Montreal Canadien junior team tryout at age 16. He was immediately sent to the second-rank junior squad. Four years later, when his junior stint was ending, Vachon was once again farmed out, this time to a minor league team. When he finally got a chance to play for Montreal eight years ago, he initially performed in the shadow of Gump Worsley. Eventually, as he was becoming recognized as a respected goaltender, Vachon was displaced...
...staircases in a Fred Astaire movie. As a Boy Scout, George belonged to the elite Order of the Arrow. At Yale, it was Bones and the Daily News. There was also a year at Oxford, where he met and married Irene Trewin, daughter of Lord and Lady Trewin. A stint at TIME-LIFE did no harm either...