Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio Republicans had told Senator Bob Taft last summer that they were ready to go all-out for him for the presidency. Would he please let them know before Nov. 1 whether he wanted the job? Last week, with a few days to spare, Bob Taft said...
...pilot named Charles Martin-decided what to do. While he still had gasoline for almost three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...
...Soviet State Planning Commission pointedly announced that Russia's 1947 crop was 58% more than last year's. Agriculture experts believed the actual figure was near 61,000,000 tons, or only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...
...Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
Pattern for Reporting. The idea for the expedition was chiefly that of the Trib's able Foreign Editor Joe Barnes, 40. He knew that the Trib could not spare the space or the foreign staff to compete with the rival Times. But Barnes hoped that four fast-moving reporters could turn out a roundup that would tell more about Eastern Europe than daily datelines...