Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died and her father ran off. No doubt the sisters at the convent in Moulins, who took her in when she was 17, raised their eyebrows when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer--she was apparently charming but no Piaf--led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave...
...first stint at a major newspaper while at Oxford University, working summers at The New York Times' Paris bureau. With most of the other reporters covering strife in the Middle East, the young twenty-something's byline topped most of the Timesi Paris stories...
...returned from another stint in Europe in time for the 1988 presidential campaign, during which he covered Gary Hart. It was a campaign Dionne loathed because of the "side-issues" of Hartis alleged affair and then Vice President George Bush's use of escaped convict Willie Horton in campaign ads against then Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis...
...what was "not the most studious of times on campus," Rowe says Phillips Brooks House was often home for him, where he served as the service organization's vice president in 1972-73 after a stint as a volunteer at the John Marshall School...
After a brief stint teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Kristol returned to Boston in 1983 to teach at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He says he was the school's "token conservative...