Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon our mule is in a sweat. We must spare him, so my Chinese priest companion and myself get down to walk in the mud, which reaches to our ankles and pulls off our shoes...
...Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord' as the shells screamed overhead and exploded. ... I realized my faith wasn't so strong, neither was my confidence nor my love. So I prayed to Our Lady to spare me, and promised her to join the Cistercians to learn to love...
Making the Deal. While completing his project, Lamb drove some shrewd real estate bargains. Ten stores-among them branches of F. W. Woolworth, Edison Brothers Shoe Shops and Owl Drug Co.-subleased some of his spare land at $2,000 a front foot. Lamb was not afraid of the competition as long as it helped to pay the cost of his store...
...life in Cambridge will be planned and executed entirely on his own initiative, guided by nothing but his instinct. That vague thing he knows only as "Harvard", he realizes, does not much care what courses he takes, what field he concentrates in, or what he does in his spare time, so long as he fulfills the provisions of the Rules and Regulations. He understands, furthermore, that his adviser is nothing more than a personification of those rules and regulations, and is not at all to be considered a source of advice...
...L.S.U. He was there when Huey Long was at the peak of his power. He graduated with a law degree, joined his brother's law firm and in 1936 was voted the "most popular escort" by the city's debutantes. He was dashing and debonair. In spare moments in 1936, he worked for the election of a reform candidate for governor against Huey's man, Richard Leche (rhymes with mesh). Leche won the governorship but later went to jail (and has now quietly retired to a farm...