Word: stints
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...estimate, he campaigned flat-outfrom January to November 1963 with the exceptionof two Saturday nights and a stint at his NewHampshire summer camp. And Duehay added that onone of the two Saturday nights he missed, hesimply fell asleep...
Mandel also notes that hosts play integral roles in the success of game shows. Bob Barker reigns as the undisputed king of game show hosts, displaying super-human endurance with his 26 year stint on "The Price is Right." Fast approaching 80 years of age, Barker, who spends rerun seasons in a giant jar of formaldehyde, has also persevered through a publicity nightmare stemming from an affair with show model Dian Parkinson...
Still, if things do not work out right away, McLaughlin will not abandon his goal of playing in MLS. Although the prospect of a stint in the second division A-League is not nearly as appealing as a shot at the big time, McLaughlin recognizes that he might need a little seasoning before he can take on the likes of Carlos Valderrama and Marco Etcheverry...
Sheriff Jules Clement is the man in charge of keeping the town's cooped-up energies contained. A local boy who's seen the city lights during a stint in New York as a social worker, he'd rather be standing in a mountain trout stream than making his daily rounds, which are mostly devoted to tire slashings, acts of birdbath vandalism and hunting accidents. As an example of what Harrison calls "that final anomaly, a liberal officer of the law," Clement would just as soon not crack most cases, aware that the bulk of them boil down to ignorance...
...knowledge, Henry James the novelist never attended Harvard College, and his only formal education was a brief stint at Harvard Law School when he was 19. (In 1899, when he graduated from college, according to the article, he was 56.) Were law students involved with The Crimson at that time, or is this a different Henry James you're talking about? HILLARY N. STEVENS...