Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korea began, the Chinese intervened on behalf of the North, restoring its military presence in that country. On the Chinese mainland, the regime embarked on the "Resist America, Aid Korea" campaign complete with government drives for the collection of "patriotic donations" for the cause. What emerged from the Chinese stint in Korea was new-found respect throughout Asia for China's military prowess as exhibited against the United States...
Raffael was born in Brooklyn. He studied and lived in New York City before deciding, as he put it, that "I desperately needed to find some alternative" to the abrasive, narrow competitiveness of its art scene. During a 1966 teaching stint at the University of California in Berkeley, he met Artists William Allan and William Wiley, still his closest friends. "I liked the independence and quality of their work," he recalls, "and especially how their lives as men and artists were so rich. It instilled in me a sense of what a person and an artist could be." With...
Breslin was in town this week, drumming up support for his latest novel, World Without End, Amen. He was autographing copies of the book at the Coop. Before he took his stint on the ballpoint shift, I got on the Breslin firetruck. It was a helluva ride...
...tryout by the old Boston Braves. But he sacrificed his budding athletic career to begin studying music composition at New York University. A night job as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune aroused an interest in writing, led to a master's degree in journalism, a stint with the Associated Press and eventually to a job as a Tribune music critic...
...turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed though, that I could hurt, too. She wanted, you see, what she only imagined...