Sentences with phrase «yearlong stint in»

In her upcoming novel, Everything Else in the Universe, Tracy Holczer explores wounds seen and unseen as Lucy, 12, grapples with the return of her father from a yearlong stint in Vietnam.

If Scott Kelly's recent yearlong stint in space isn't enough for you, scientists affiliated with the International Space Station (ISS) have conducted almost 1,800 investigations and published more than 1,100 studies since assembly of the station started in 1998.

She has vivid memories of the celebrations when soldiers returned home from World War I; of big picnics on her family's farm on the windswept prairies; of gas rationing during the second world war, when she was a young mother with five kids; and of traveling across Europe, North Africa and the U.S., and even diving in the Great Barrier Reef during a yearlong stint in Australia after she retired.

Not exact matches

After a decade of cooking in some of the country's top restaurants (The French Laundry, Benu, Urasawa, Aziza), executing the techniques and flavors of other people's cuisine (French, Japanese, Moroccan), and years of personal travel (including four years in the army, a yearlong tour in Iraq and a stint as a corporate chef in Korea), it's Anh's turn to tell his own story on the plate.

According to Newsday, GOP leaders say Islip Supervisor Tom Croci, who is just back from a yearlong Navy Reserve stint in Afghanistan, is their first choice to replace Senft on the ballot.