Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalist seems ever to have had a serious, revealing talk with him. He has taken part in no international parley, save with comrades in the Soviet satellite belt. He has never traveled in countries outside Moscow's orbit. His career is known only in a framework as spare as the man himself is fleshy...
...became one of the Navy's best pilots; in 1932, he won the personal Navy E for dive bombing and fixed (i.e., fighter) gunnery. In his spare time, while other officers swapped scuttlebutt over wardroom coffee, Sherman read economics and world politics. He poured out scholarly articles for Navy publications, studded them with quotations from Napoleon, Lee and Moltke, ranged in subject from critiques on the 1918 air war in Palestine to suggestions for carrier design. Many of his contemporaries found his singleminded-ness irritating. But his superiors were delighted with a staff officer they could lean on; subordinates...
Grand Junction, as a result, has developed the same hard-eyed passion for champion bird dogs which The Bronx reserves for baseball players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
...Washington, D.C., at the invitation of Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun, some 3,000 people came to Washington Cathedral on Ash Wednesday for a day of services devoted to "God, Man and the Hydrogen Bomb." Forty ministers joined in the Communion service. A Lutheran read the Epistle: "Spare thy people, O Lord . . ."A Negro Congregationalist read the Gospel: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth . . ."A Baptist preached the sermon: "Science and invention cannot save us ... The future destiny of man on this planet depends on how soon and low well mankind learns the two lessons : Thou shalt love...
Yale gave him confidence and sharpened his wits, but in his basic thinking the shaggy-haired, long-boned rustic was not deeply affected. He had been reading John Locke and Thomas Paine since 13. He had learned a lean, spare style of debate and he had developed an abiding conviction that the source of all power is the people-a notion that he was later to translate into his brilliant argument for states' rights against the growing power of the Federal Government...