Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many columnists who draw on their own experiences find that the well quickly goes dry, but Goodman shows no sign of flagging. She recently completed a six-month stint as a guest commentator on NBC'S Today show, and now is said to be a leading contender to replace Shana Alexander as half of the "Point-Counterpoint" team on CBS's 60 Minutes. If she does, she insists, it won't be to joust with Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick, as Alexander did. "Debate polarizes, and everything I've tried to do is the opposite-to find...
Field's current plans for post-graduate work range from a head-first plunge into the media market to a two-year stint at business school, to "postpone the decision...
...Sider that understanding runs particularly deep. He was introduced to the military at the age of six-at Wyler Military Academy in Evansville, Wis. Though his mid-1950s Army stint as a public information specialist provided little in the way of battleground adventure, his 16 months as a TIME war correspondent in Viet Nam did. Says Sider, who was wounded in the neck near the Laotian border: "It was the thrilling Hemingway life at last: danger, excitement and mud." On a working vacation last July, Sider took a flying leap into another Army experience: paratrooper training at the Fort Benning...
...good story, saw to it that that would be no easy job; he perpetrated an incredible number of myths about himself. He often boasted that he had never attended school for a single day. Untrue. He had at least three years of formal education as a child-a stint that was not unusually short in the rural Ohio and Michigan of his youth. As a budding inventor, he also attended classes in chemistry at New York City's Cooper Union after realizing that his self-taught knowledge of that science was inadequate...
...reason for all the military pregnancy is that women who make the service a career are determined to live as normal a life as possible. For many, that means having children. Some who intend to quit the service after a brief stint are attracted by the benefits offered to those who bear children as well as arms: free medical care and a liberal leave policy...