Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatest Factor." It was a somewhat less than startling disclosure. Two U.S. divisions are already in Germany-> some 100,000 men, counting various scattered constabulary, housekeeping troops and other spare parts. Four more combat divisions with their supporting troops would mean another 100,000-just about what Ohio's Robert A. Taft had already accepted as a reasonable figure...
...League, Columbia switched to the slower game. It worked well enough. Though Cornell led for much of the game, the Lions turned on the heat to shoot ten goals in 2½ minutes at one point, another eight goals in the last two minutes, to win with points to spare...
...lastly, what does she do in her spare time? Guzzle chocolate sodas in a nice warm drugstore? She would probably be the first to squawk about higher taxes to rearm the Europeans, in order to save our own men, and probably the last to be caught rolling bandages, or writing letters to servicemen, or anything else, at least on the volunteer basis...
...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...
...bobbies are all benign, high-minded, comradely chaps, as alike as the buttons on a uniform. At home, they grow begonias; in the clubby atmosphere of the station house, they grab spare moments for darts and glee-club practice...