Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your very excellent article on John J. Mc-Cloy and ... his desire to spare the historic city of Rothenburg, Germany [TIME, June 20] brings to light a historical coincidence not generally known...
...plea to General Hodges to spare the historic shrine, if at all possible, was transmitted down ... to HQ 4th Infantry Division, where ... a volunteer patrol was sent ... to the Nazi commander . . . and succeeded in arranging the German evacuation of the city, which fell the next day . . . without a shot being fired...
Sabath shook his head: seven minutes was all he could spare. Before anyone realized what was up, "Goober" Cox called Sabath a "liar," swung at him with his right hand, clouted him on the side of the head and sent his glasses spinning...
...Francisco Sun after graduating from the old Los Angeles High School (now being torn down to make way for Hollywood Freeway) and spending two years at the University of California at Berkeley. He achieved his biggest youthful ambition in 1917; after years of studying law in his spare time, he was admitted to the California...
...Spare the Horses. Grandiose spectacles, and the sumptuous grandeur of its own size and trappings, have made the $4,600,000 Music Hall a show business nonpareil and a major tourist magnet. Last year, at prices from 80? to $2.40, it drew 16 times as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Of its 8,000,000 annual customers, half are out-of-towners...