Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holds. DeLay defended the Speaker during Gingrich's ethics investigation and helped him narrowly win re-election to his post in January 1997. But just six months later, DeLay tried to overthrow Gingrich in a coup attempt that, when it failed, seemed sure to end the Texan's stint in the leadership...
...Rembrandt, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most solitary and most powerful hero in biblical history...After him, nothing else was the same again." Even baseball managers grow eloquent about Moses as paragon: when recounting why Mets star Bobby Bonilla failed to inspire his teammates during his first stint with the team in the early 1990s, Frank Cashen explained, "He was supposed to lead us out of the wilderness, take us to the Red Sea and part the waters. It didn't work that way. He said he couldn't swim...
...receiver from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., was supremely talented: at 6 ft. 4 in. he was speedy and sure-handed. But 19 NFL teams had passed over Moss in the draft because of a record that included a couple of arrests, a probation violation and a one-month stint in jail...
...industry was already changing when Burnett joined the Homer McGee agency in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1919, after a brief stint as a newspaperman. Product claims were giving way to elaborate narratives--imaginary stories of consumers whose purchase had been rewarded with popularity, success, romance...
Hamilton H. Hicks '01, a Currier House psychology concentrator, has recently augmented his Harvard education with a bold agenda of amateur strip-tease competition. His second-place win at Landsdowne Street's Axis Club, in addition to a short stint at drag-dressing, has earned Hicks quite a reputation for immodesty around campus as well as among the Boston area clubbing scene. Straight from the mouth of the boy who really "dares to bare," FM uncovers the true experience, inspiration and secret to successful stripping...