Short Timer

He was a pallid-faced little dope fiend of a short-timer who would do anything to obtain the drug. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Back on post, I drop my clothes on my bunk and, wearing only flip-flops and a towel, follow the perforated steel walkway to the latrine Quonset and stand under the hot water for a long while, thinking about my short-timer's calendar. ❋ Barry Basden (2011)

With every lawmaker essentially a free agent short-timer, seeking from their first days in Sacramento a pathway up the ladder, it is most often lobbyists who retain institutional memory and remain the only long-playing experts on complex issues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have spent vacations and only vacations in other countries, and as a short-timer did not find myself having to adapt a great deal to local culture (though I did what I was told so as not to offend, for the most part). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the small pantheon of memorable Washington spokesmen, the White House mouthpiece is a mere short-timer. ❋ The Reliable Source (2011)

For a man who came into his post reluctantly and as a purported short-timer, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is turning into more and more of a fixture at the Pentagon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Isn't that what deals are supposed to be about, even if Stewart is a short-timer with the Wings? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some in the military establishment have told us that they feel that their mission is smoother without having to assimilate short-timer citizen-soldiers, or those who may feel more entitled to try to change the system, those whose opportunities and ambitions more or less guarantee that they will not "re-up" but just serve a minimum time then hurry back to the good life that awaits them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rep. Joe Sestak, who ousted Specter on May 18, has a considerably better profile as a short-timer in Congress -- he was first elected in 2006 -- with a deep military resume and strong outsider credentials. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Metro board is preparing to hire a search firm to help find a permanent replacement for former general manager John B. Catoe Jr., who resigned effective April 2, so Sarles is a short-timer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Blair, a former commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, probably became a short-timer after a young Nigerian man boarded a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day allegedly with explosives sewn into his underwear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet, Sarles's status as a short-timer could make him less beholden to the various political interests that drive Metro -- giving him a unique opportunity to tackle some of Metro's more unwieldy problems, transit officials and experts said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The short-timer would serve from after the November election until the new senator is inaugurated in January. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From there, he jumped to Home Depot, and is now a short-timer at Chrysler, set to leave when the company emerges from bankruptcy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Again, the dude is a short-timer no matter what happens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Don't even] [bother] waking Jim, he's a short [timer]. ❋ Kevin (2003)

Sure, [I'm leaving] and gave [two weeks notice], but I REALLY want it to be [over NOW]. I have short timer disease ❋ Devious Steve O (2006)

[SPC] Joe [Snuffy]: Man i got to wake up and go to pt. Fuck that im going back to bed im a short [timer]. ❋ Fat Bastard Child (2011)

Quit [yer] [bitch ass] cryin', you're just a short [timer]. ❋ Taraka.san (2009)

The Short Timers is [the book] that the movie [Full Metal Jacket] is [based on]. ❋ EveryMnwe (2007)

[Mike's] got Short Timers man! He took [vacation] for the last 4 days in his [current] position! ❋ Me (2006)

That bastard will be [waist deep] in [fresh powder] in two days, fucking [short timer]. ❋ Ecov Spmah (2011)

Man does [Steve] has a bad case of Short Timers Disease. [Short time], [Short Timer] ❋ Fernshouse (2016)

The accountant with [short timer] syndrome was thinking about wearing flip flops to work during his last two weeks before starting a new job. And the short timer in Ann Arbor, about to move to Buffalo had to [resist the urge] to strangle all of the smug [half-wit] aging hippies. ❋ Franmarta (2013)

[I wonder] if [Simon Cowell] is getting short-timer's syndrome on [American Idol]? ❋ Guido1 (2010)