Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army had originally ruled), the Guard will institute the Army's preferred six-month program. For its part, the Army assured the Guard that it would help keep Guard strength at its present level of 400,000 men-27 divisions, nine regimental combat teams and assorted spare parts...
...became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...
Eisenhower, through his ubiquitous mouth-piece, Sherman Adams, has refused an invitation from Mongomery's Rev. Martin Luther King to speak in the South on the problems of integration. The reason that he gave for his refusal was that he could not spare the time to "schedule a speaking engagement". The President has, however, in the past two weeks, been able to make two separate trips to Augusta, Georgia, spending a total of nine days...
...Millay. He has hutzpa all right, but always with more than a grain of justification. "Nobody," he once announced, "can handle the sonnet form like me and Millay"?but he could point to some entirely respectable poetry he had written in spare moments. He pronounces foreign words with elaborate accuracy?but it is not just an affectation, for he speaks five foreign languages (German, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew). He loves to give advice to experts on their own specialty? theater technicians on lighting, or classicists on Latin?but he has an impressive body of general information and education...
...journalism." And she believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...