Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important point, the Navy insists, is that the Eisenhower operated more than efficiently. During a busy half-year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well...
...Texas home (Jacksonville, pop. 7,000) for New York City in 1946, she had dreams of singing as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. To support herself while pursuing her aspirations, she found work as a "file analyst" trainee at TIME. Little did Felsher suspect that her trainee stint would blossom into "the most interesting job I could have ever hoped...
Perhaps his sweet tooth does not extend to the syrupy script. Writer and director Leven, a psychotherapist who spent time on the Harvard faculty, was not expecting this acting trinity to descend upon his humble screenplay and is simply unprepared to handle such an awesome burden on his first stint as a director...
Approaching 50, Tim Cranmer tends a fine old house and vineyard in Somerset bequeathed to him by a wealthy uncle. His retirement is not of his own choosing. After a long stint in British intelligence, coinciding with some of the iciest years of the cold war, he has been bounced by his new boss as unsuited for the new world order: "I mean twenty-five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels...
...national service abducted him into manhood; an army stint at Cambridge encouraged him to seek, and win, a scholarship to Oxford, where he taught after graduation. But from Fringe on, anonymity would be lost to Bennett, and sensation would press in on this lifelong bachelor in odd ways. All sorts of stray beasts would show up on his doorstep...