Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rashly extended an invitation to have TIME correspondents visit him. He wrote: "If one of your correspondents should happen to be in Denmark . . . and have a few days off, ask him to come over and see us. We have some pretty good fishing and shooting and a fairly comfortable spare room...
Billy Graham has taken evangelism to the tailor. He wears a jaunty sky-blue gabardine, cut full to flatter his spare figure (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). Accessories: a blue and white tie and square-folded white handkerchief, thick-soled, reddish-brown shoes, a cowboy belt with a silver buckle and silver tip. ("You know," muses Billy, "when I was a kid, I used to think that preachers all wore black suits and long faces.") In his campaign posters, Billy's face is sleekly handsome; the reality seems gaunter and more impressive-deep-set, remote blue eyes, sharp...
...China-Burma-India Theater, ended up in China as a sergeant. After college (Yale '48), Steinkraus combined his two main pastimes into a temporary career. An ardent musician ("strictly longhair"), he played the viola with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, joined a concert-management concern, spent all his spare time on the horse-show circuit...
Even before getting his degree, young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to the Chilean legation in Lima, Peru. There, just "to kill time," he took up history and literature...
They have spent most of their spare time since trying to organize the random echoes and overtones into understandable patterns-and, if they turned up barnyard squawks and eerie moans along the way, maybe those could be used too. They know their "tapesichord" will never displace the orchestra ("After all, Beethoven's Ninth is still Beethoven's Ninth"), but they believe it will give composers a brand-new range of effects...