Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's best pottery-makers turned up in Washington last week to begin a lecture and demonstration tour that will take him to 15 cities in the U.S. and Canada. He was Bernard Leach, 63, a spare, tweedy, Hong Kong-born English man who described himself as "a sort of courier between East & West." Leach was certainly well equipped to acquaint U.S. potters with oriental standards and tricks of their trade. He had studied painting in London, gone to To kyo at 21 to teach it. "I had no idea of taking up pottery," he recalls, "but in Japan...
...there are 16 other priests like him; in the similar Mission de France there are some 140 who earn their daily bread in factories or farms or trades, side by side with the people to whom they minister. These priests celebrate Mass in tenements or farmhouses, and in their "spare time" give help and advice to those who ask for it. Not much is known of them, in France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes offend...
...bidding of the United States government and his old friend Owen Lattimore, Professor in the Page School of international Relations at Johns Hopkins and father of godson David. The (physically) 60-year-old Gegen tells seminar students in the Page School about Mongolian history and customs, and spends his spare time at home with the Lattimores in Baltimore...
...roughriding industrialists whose energy and daring have made Sāo Paulo one of the world's fastest-growing cities, by far the most untrammeled is Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari. At 33, Baby has already built an industrial empire worth some $25 million. In his spare time he has enjoyed life with a free-spending gusto that has won him the undisputed title of Brazil's champion playboy...
Probing of the Heart. One girl both committed her "sin" and asked pardon for it while at the microphone. Many of her fellow students, she said, were "silly to give testimony" because she couldn't believe they were sincere; then she asked forgiveness for doubting their sincerity. A spare young faculty member rose to confess: "I've led a double life. I've lived a life of defeat ... As you know, I was once a missionary in China . . . After the war started I came back. I told people it was because of the war. But it wasn...