Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale, troubled or in trouble, is likely to go to his master rather than a dean or psychiatrist. If he imports a date and signs up early enough the master will put her up in a spare bedroom; each master's family usually handles about 15 girls during the course of a big football weekend...
Malcolm Holmes never worries about what to do with his spare time. He directs band medleys in Soldiers Field and plays the violin in a string quartet. He is dean of one of the country's leading music conservatories, and conductor of several amateur and semi-professional orchestras. He has recently written a book on conducting amateur musical groups, and he spent part of the summer leading the Boston Pops Orchestra. Through all these various activities he manages to retain a jolly disposition, disturbed only occasionally by a Glockenspiel or an enemy football manager...
...tried to drug itself after the Democratic landslide in 1948. The fact was that 52% of total votes cast had gone to Republicans, only 46% to Democrats. More important, the Republicans the Democrats had most wanted to beat had won, while Democratic leaders the party could ill afford to spare had been soundly defeated...
...award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done to bring peace . . . every attempt must be made to seize upon the slightest evidence of good feeling between...
...Hartfords that they might be sent to jail for contempt of court. Said John Hartford: "How long would we have to go, a year or two?" The lawyer said probably no more than 30 days. "Well," said John, "I'm not busy these days. I guess I can spare 30 days. What about you, George?" George said he wouldn't mind going to jail if they would let him fix radios...