Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outpost. He was a born leader and a natural athlete; his son was neither. Back at the palace Charles had to confront his little sister Anne, who had all her father's gifts and a confident personality. All Charles had was grit. After finally slogging through Cambridge and a stint in the navy that he found difficult, he had his own ideas about being the heir apparent, and they distanced him from his mother and sovereign. By the time he undertook the biographical film and the book, he neither consulted nor informed her of his plan...
Since his first stint at TIME, Trillin's wry political commentary, his accounts of gastronomical journeys in search of the perfect barbecue and his compassionate reportage of small-town America have appeared in the New Yorker, where he is a staff writer, in a syndicated newspaper column and in the Nation, to which he contributes a weekly poem (a genre he took up during the Bush Administration when the phrase "If you knew what John Sununu" came to him in an inspired flash). His 19th book, Messages from My Father, is to be published this spring...
However, he had been playing basketball since being an extraordinarily tall fourth grader, and except for a short stint as a wide receiver on his high school football team, he didn't really want to do anything else...
JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, fresh out of a second prison stint after violating his parole, is working on a new kind of sentence. According to the New York Daily News, the Long Island mechanic whose teenage girlfriend shot his wife is trying to parlay his notoriety into a publishing deal for his debut literary effort, Joey Buttafuoco's How to Avoid Car Rip-Offs. "The world is full of scammers," he says, "but that's not how the Buttafuocos do business...
...that brief stint St. Lawrence notched it's first goal of the game, knotting the score at a heartbreaking 1-1 with only one second left in regulation...