Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish economy today is plagued by inflation and hobbled by a shortage of consumer goods. The Turks have a word for it. The word is yok, which means, "There isn't any." It is yok for coffee and chocolate, knives and forks, writing paper and ink, appliances and spare parts. Had it not been for U.S. aid, it would have been yok this year for flour...
...nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to take a course in salesmanship. If you spend your spare time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend it in reading, discussing and thinking of things that matter, you will be an educated person...
Ruiz Cortines did not pretend that the picture was uniformly bright. From September 1956 to June 1957 the country piled up an unfavorable trade balance of $55.8 million, although, said the President, 82% of it was the result of temporary expenditures (spare machine parts, industrial equipment) necessary for economic expansion. Even excluding Indian communities, 300,000 children have no schools and one out of every two Mexicans is still illiterate. The population of the Federal District, now 4.5 million, will probably hit 7,000,000 by 1966, causing serious food, water and school shortages. And because of drought and population...
...with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst of the world's worst roads, put in a scheduled 272 wearying hours at the wheel. Trouble along the way was just about the only...
...Spare, high-domed Alfred Kantorowicz was one of East Germany's leading intellectuals, onetime intimate of Heinrich Mann, Romain Rolland and Ernest Hemingway, the founder of a guild of anti-Nazi writers in exile, the author himself of half a dozen books, including a lively portrait of the 21-nation battalion he commanded in the Spanish Civil...