Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buildup. In France to investigate Washington reports of "slow progress, bad conditions and bottlenecks," General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff, found his crews living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
Hasan himself was in Turkey, painting, going to school, and playing soccer in his spare time. There wasn't enough money to send him to the U.S. along with his paintings. But Hasan is bearing up. He would like to see the U.S. and "paint those majestic skyscrapers," but right now there's school, and it might not be a good idea to miss classes. As he admits himself, he is a little weak in arithmetic...
Snobs & Iodine. Hatlo quit school in Los Angeles at 14, became a printer's devil, and in his spare time was a publicity man for Mack Sennett. He worked his way into cartooning on the sports page of Hearst's San Francisco Bulletin. William R. Hearst himself spotted his drawings of an improbable community Hatlo called "Swineskin Gulch," and ordered Bulletin editors to use more Hatlo cartoons. In 1928 he tried his first "They'll Do It Every Time," was so flooded with letters from readers suggesting ideas that he has drawn it ever since...
...Deadly Trio. By the time Stehle arrived at the scene of the kill, Diana had the rabbit pinned, one foot on its back, the other on its head, her wings tenting the prey. She whimpered excitedly while Stehle distracted her with a spare piece of rabbit meat and took the kill from her claws. The rabbit was pouched and Diana was re-thonged. Ferret Mookie stayed underground while the hawk was airborne, but he quickly emerged and was re-pocketed to await the next assignment...
Depression. Almost all his major speeches included sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The carefree era "about which a fellow Princetonian of mine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote some enduring prose," ended in disaster, for which the Republican government of the time had no cure except "wails and exhortation ... I can remember when shabby men and boys stood on the highways as far north...