Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough...
...store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call it the Raw Deal down here. It's no deal at all," said he. He agreed with Sims that farmers should diversify their crops...
...that charged fastest was Foxzami, a four-year-old bay colt bred in New Zealand and owned by a retired Sydney automobile spare parts dealer. Foxzami, whose fanciers had got odds of 16 to 1, won by a length and a half. The winner's purse: 8,750 Australian pounds...
...Yugoslavia] have long since discerned the repulsive and vile snout of the Belgrade deserter to the camp of imperialism, hireling spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor to his country and to the cause of Socialism." The people are not deceived, said the Literary Gazette, when "the Wall Street gentlemen spare no dollars to make the insolent dwarf Tito appear a giant...
Composer Modarelli had spent his spare time for months reading up on West Virginia's history and folk literature. To get more ideas he made trips up & down the Kanawha, which with its main tributaries winds on a 450-mile course through fertile farmland, timbered hills and industrial valleys...