shrift

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But over the past six weeks, with the help of strength and conditioning coach Steve Saunders, performance coaching analyst Ron Shrift and director of sports nutrition Sarah Snyder, he started to eat smarter.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2019

And he added: “Did it occur to anyone to check whether Thrift was a real person before changing him to Shrift? Apparently not.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018

In the interview with Colbert, Franco also addressed a series of tweets by Breakfast Club star Ally Sheedy, who he had directed in 2014 in the off-Broadway play The Long Shrift.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2018

The cranky New York Observer critic was one of several reviewers who panned Franco's staging of the new off-Broadway play "The Long Shrift" with the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York. 

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2014

And even Officer Shrift, mounted proudly on a long, low dachshund, galloped grimly along.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster