Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into Palace Gates one morning last week panted the little two-coach train which invariably leaves at 10:15 for Seven Sisters, where commuters invariably set down at 10:21 on the dot, transfer to the main line to London's financial district. With a few minutes to spare, Driver Percy Playle and his fireman left the cab for a quick...
...editorial writer for the St. Louis Star-Times answered his telephone. "Can you spare a minute?" a woman's voice asked. "I've seen loved ones hurt or killed now in two world wars. I've got two boys who stand to be drawn into this one. You write editorials, you hear what's going on. Can't you give me some hope? Can't you tell me what we should...
Harvard is a superb institution. Its teaching staff is incomparable. besides, it has fabulous facilities. We all recognize these attributes. But in spite of them, I have one minor complaint. Mind you, it's only trivial, but I feel that the administration should spare a little of its valuable time to examine this trifling-complaint. It only involves the lives of the students...
...Pusan. Very few Americans got to Korea because they wanted to fight. PRIVATE STANLEY POPKO, of Bayonne, N J., for instance, was in Korea because he had wanted an education. His father was a night watchman for Standard Oil of New Jersey; there was never any money to spare in the family. After Stan graduated from Bayonne Technical High School last year, he looked around for a job that would permit him to go on to night school, finally decided to let Uncle Sam take care of his further education. First he tried the Navy, but it had a waiting...
What Author Green does with these spare and seemingly trivial bits & pieces is beyond the reach of most novelists. He has said that novels "should be concerned with the everyday mishaps of ordinary life," and in Concluding Green gives such mishaps an atmosphere of both urgency and mystery...