Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elson, a sometime dance critic and longtime oenophile, began at TIME as a summer-vacation copy boy while an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He went on to get an M.A. in English from Columbia, and after a stint in Japan with the Air Force joined our Detroit bureau in 1957. He later transferred to New York, where he wrote and edited Religion as well as other sections, and he moved to World three years ago. "What's going on now is as challenging and complex a variety of situations as I've had to deal with...
...married a beautiful, rich girl and, after a distinguished stint in World War II, won a seat in the Canadian Parliament. He rose to be a Minister of Justice -"the most complex man I've ever known and perhaps the most able," says a colleague-and finally Chief Justice. Throughout, Andrews remained aloof (or, to his many critics, cold), thoughtful (or calculating), devoted to the public good (or his own ambition...
Lois Stalvey met other nonreaders, all of them poor and black, when she did a once-a-week hourly stint as a volunteer teacher. Described to their faces by the principal as "the worst class the school's ever had," her eighth-graders had been virtually abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained...
...They have the potential to win the league," Park said yesterday. "They have a solid ballclub, and they attack the ball." Park plans to send lefty Milt Holt to the mound against the Bruin attackers today. Holt is coming off a strong three-inning stint against Tufts on Monday...
...innings, allowing only seven hits and one run while picking up a pair of wins. Walsh had just one start and grabbed the win thanks to some strong Harvard hitting which produced 17 runs to work with. Walsh allowed ten hits and six runs in his seven-inning stint against Clark College...