Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jaeger had always heard stories about "casual" employees--workers theoretically hired to work on a part-time basis for a three-month stint--actually working as full-time employees. They kept their "casual" status and received low wages and no benefits...
...glad that I dropped out of B.U.," she said, referring to her one-year stint at Boston University...
Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
...ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four Tonys, but Scott's personal life was messy. He was married five times, twice to actress Colleen Dewhurst. He attributed his heavy drinking habits to a four-year stint digging graves for the Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. "I became an actor," he once said, "to escape my own personality...
...similarly with the great environmentalist writers of this century--Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Doug Peacock and many more like them--who feel compelled to tell us about their lives to an extent that often becomes deadening. Peacock has spent the years since his return from a deeply traumatic stint in Vietnam photographing and following brown bears from unimaginably unsafe distances: what lurks behind Peacock's lengthy exposition of his Grizzly Years, though, is not the implication that his set of unusual experiences are unique but that somehow they partake of the universally shared history of the relationship between...