Word: stints
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hockey team. I recently found myself at the Beanpot, an annual hockey tournament between Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, and Northeastern. It was probably the closest I’d been to an ice rink since the second grade, when I quit skating after a traumatizing two-week stint with an impatient instructor. We had different philosophies about encouragement. The arena was packed—with BU fans, with BC fans, with Northeastern fans. Representing Harvard? Two small rows of band. I’m not going to call myself a super sports fan. I left the Harvard-Yale tailgate...
...personality will carry New York," predicts a Rome-based priest who attended Pontifical North American College during Dolan's stint there. This priest says he always knew when Dolan was about to appear by the smell of cigar smoke that arrived first. "New Yorkers will come to be enchanted by this man. He's just so big-hearted, and has a personality that fills up whatever room he enters...
Cantor says he knows he can't block everything coming through - otherwise the GOP risks being labeled the party of obstruction. (Just look at the Republicans' four-decade stint in Siberia after they tried to block much of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.) But he also won't simply roll over for Obama's agenda. In offering constructive criticism and viable alternatives, negotiating when possible and walking away when necessary, Cantor believes he's found the path back to that office with the spectacular view of the Mall...
Frazier has shown versatility to this point in his career, interning with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls prior to his two years with Iowa’s football staff. In a short stint training the Hawkeyes, the two-time All-Ivy selection left a notable impression...
...culinary team had prepared for dessert. Born in the Alsatian town of Strasbourg, Ost cooked in kitchens around the world before he finally decided to settle down and make his home in Boston. In 1996, Ost first opened Sandrine’s Bistro, named for his daughter, after a stint as the executive chef of Le Meridien Boston, a restaurant in the city. The newly minted knight said that he appreciated all the support he has received. “All my friends are here, and that means more to me than the medal,” Ost said...