Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spending authority for military assistance under the Mutual Security Program, down by $500 million because "lead-time financing has been reduced-notably for spare parts-[some] maintenance support . . . has been eliminated, and items have been removed from grant-aid which countries can now pay for themselves." Ike's military-assistance cut was a real concession to the congressional economy spree and a clear effort to forestall whacks with an even heavier meat...
Traded Tiara. Diana's mother was a legendary beauty, Blanche Oelrichs Thomas, also known as Michael Strange in her spare-time incarnations as poet and author. It was in Carder's, where she was trading her diamond tiara for a rope of matched pearls, that she met Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced...
...monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including in his book much of Ovid's remaining love poetry. Critic Highet assembles an ingratiating montage of seven Latin poets (Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibiillus. Ovid. Juvenal...
...Moralists who preached that the Lord's wrath had wiped out the sinful city were answered by a popular ditty: If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did he burn all the churches down And spare Hotaling's whiskey...
Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...