Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a desultory two-year career at Downer College in Milwaukee and a stint as an elevator operator in Gary, Ind., in 1946 Dewhurst entered New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A year later, she married Fellow Student Jim Vickery, and for the next dozen years lived with him in a series of cold-water flats, supporting herself with bit parts and odd jobs. At one point she had to turn down a major role when Director Joseph Papp, who had only heard about her, asked her to read for Juliet. "Oh, Mr. Papp," Dewhurst told...
...dark, petite Jane was invited to spend the New Year's holiday with the royal family at Sandringham, more than 10,000 Britons drove, biked or hiked past the castle to catch Jane and Charles together. Despite the recurring engagement rumors, Charles departed unbetrothed for a four-month stint with the Royal Navy in the Far East, leaving Jane behind at her job with a London art gallery. But a Sandringham estate worker made his own unofficial announcement. "They seemed," he said, "to squeeze hands and kiss an awful...
Bond, it seems, was born in Wattenscheid, Germany, on Nov. 11, 1920, second son of a one-armed Scottish engineer. Brought up mainly on the Continent, his only stint in England (at Eton, of course) was brief and unhappy. At age 18, James joined a British espionage unit, exposing first a sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part...
...every reason to be equally pleased. The Soyuz spacecraft, extensively modified since the hatch failure that caused the 1971 accident, will be used by the Russians in their proposed 1975 linkup with a U.S. Apollo spaceship. (U.S. astronauts who will participate in that flight recently completed a two-week stint at Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, where they demonstrated their skills on Soyuz simulators.) Thus NASA wants every possible assurance that Soviet engineers have eliminated all Soyuz design bugs. Indeed, Western observers, noting that the Soviets had said that the main purpose of the latest flight...
Osgood's sense of the incongruous has been heightened through a less than meteoric career. A radio buff since his Baltimore childhood, Osgood (full name: Charles Osgood Wood III) passed through Fordham University and the U.S. Army, spending as much time as possible inside announcing booths. A stint as general manager of the nation's first pay-TV station, WHCT in Hartford, Conn., kept him from a microphone for only a short time. The station lost money, and Osgood was out of a job. "I thought I was the world's greatest expert...