Word: frugality
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...night settled on the capital of all the Russias, white shirt fronts gathered in rigid radiance and evening gowns swayed scented attendance: Foreign Minister Molotov was giving a banquet for his fellow peacemakers. The dinner (caviar, pheasant, ice cream) was almost frugal by official Soviet standards, and the toasts were grimly optimistic. Said Ernie Bevin as he proffered his glass: "We four must not let the people of today or tomorrow say there were men who had a chance to save the world and muffed...
When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...
...traveled as far as he could from the railroads, and sought out the oldest shepherds and peasants he could find. When their banshee-like wails could not be transcribed into the conventional musical scale, Bartók adopted five-and twelve-tone scales. His counterpoint was as orderly and frugal as his life, but in concert halls it came out dissonant...
...response was heartwarming, largely because Eire's women often weary of waiting for Eire's frugal swains to propose.* Sixty colleens offered themselves as Bergman brides. To choose among them was more than the town clerk dared. So on Feb. 14 the Kilkee town commissioners will put all the names in a hat. The lucky girl will get first chance at writing to the sighing Dutchman...
...Hastings fishermen protested against the encroachment of an amusement park on their fishing grounds (see cut). ¶ In London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 40 night nurses, peeved with their frugal fare, staged a lie-down strike. They stayed in bed an extra hour...