As a short-timer in Vietnam, he avoided risky patrols, knowing he had less than two months left to serve.

The company offered additional benefits to full-timers to improve retention.

He bragged about his brief successes, but everyone in the neighborhood knew he was just a small-timer.

Many townsfolk referred to dementia by the outdated term old-timers' disease, not realizing how offensive it could be.

Some caregivers mistakenly refer to severe memory loss as old timers' disease, even though it's not a medical term.