Word: spare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy, four years later he was deputy mayor...
Finally, all citizens would have to tighten belts, practice extreme thrift and frugality. Thundered Ta Kung Pao: "The rest of China is poor, but Shanghai looks wealthy. The rest of China lives a spare and simple life, but Shanghai indulges in luxury. The time has come for this abnormal situation to be corrected...
...this job, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Ltd. was fitting a single-engined Norseman, with $20,000 worth of extras: hydraulically operated ski-wheels plus floats, spare fuel tank, radio altimeter and a special compass for polar navigation. At month's end the plane will be tested, then dismantled, crated and shipped to the Falkland Islands...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...
That night he and his crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...