Word: stints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After Wheaton and a brief stint in a small church, Graham joined Youth for Christ International, a "para-church" group of vigorous young evangelists who would travel the country, and soon the world, working with churches to stage revival meetings to ever larger crowds. In the immediate postwar years, there seemed to be a hunger for the virile, vibrant call to faith that Graham and his friends represented. On and on they came, until as many as a million kids a week were attending such revival meetings around the country. The YFC rallies included blaring bands, quiz shows, horse acts...
...cosmopolitanism, she grounds herself in the particulars of exile, never abandoning her sense of origin. "If you don't know where you come from," she insists, "then you're just knocking about the world, you know." She grew up in Orissa, a region in eastern India. After a brief stint at Delhi University, she came to Harvard, where she discovered "this foolish confidence that you can do anything." She also discovered her interest in film. Arriving in Cambridge, she intended to study theater but found the local acting scene backward and banal: "It was before Brustein was at the Loeb...
Vincent suggested that the issue contributed tohis downfall. After a three-year stint ascommissioner, he resigned last September after avote of no-confidence from the league's teamowners...
...cetera: Is the first person from her town to attend an Ivy League institution. Just finished a week-long stint in UHS for food poisoning...
Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Susan J. Pharr, who chairs the Government Department, says Benhabib's earlier stint in the department was marked by an ability to reach out to both undergraduate and graduate students. Benhabib is a "sophisticated and cosmopolitan person of great personal warmth," Pharr says...