Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an hour or two, the white-sheeted Klansmen emerged. With them, regal in his green robes, came Georgia's Grand Dragon, Dr. Samuel Green, who is an Atlanta physician in his spare time. The Ledger's photographer, Joe Talbot, 36, stepped forward, started shooting flashbulbs...
Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The result is far less colorful than the conventional editions but perhaps more useful to the modern reader...
...Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when the U.S. Government tried to coerce Nanking into accepting a coalition with Chinese Communists. Now that the remainder of the planes and the necessary spare parts were going to be put on the line, Chinese were grateful. But the hour was late...
...University should spare no effort to make AVC's job a minor one, however. Some of the official reasons for raising rents at all are decidedly open to doubt; a ham-handed administration of next fall's unpleasantness will surely do little to quiet these suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed...
...play is chiefly impressive for its perfectly friendly, utterly deadly knowledge of both the English and the Irish. Leaping in two directions, Shaw spares no one, stops at nothing. But his fireworks sometimes shed new light, and his paradoxes sometimes prove very sound perceptions. Least of all does John Bull spare Larry Doyle, the Irishman who, like Shaw, has turned English, sees clearly what's wrong with both countries, and is not very happy in either...