Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruited into the Soviet espionage service. Maclean entered the Foreign Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined the BBC, transferred to a propaganda section of the War Office with the outbreak of World War II. Maclean was already carving out a brilliant career in the Paris embassy and spending his spare moments at Left Bank spots. At the Café Flore he met a pretty American girl named Melinda Marling, who amused him by smoking cigars. They were married just before the fall of France, and went on together to London, and four years later to Washington...
...four months and two days of active duty, Lieut. General Oliver Prince Smith retired at 62. In a quiet ceremony, his superior officer, Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, and his wife, Mrs. Esther Smith, pinned the four stars of a full general on his spare shoulders, and his three-star flag as commander, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, was struck. "By your inspiring leadership and steadfast courage," wrote Marine Commandant General Lemuel Shepherd Jr. in a warm farewell message, "the marines under your command achieved a record which stands with the most illustrious fighting units...
...Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning an honest penny, he tries "the other thing." His business, as he describes it, is inflation. To get more money in circulation, he manufactures it, and is so expert that for years he baffles Scotland Yard. Karloff made an endearing...
...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...
...sands of North Africa, burning Moslem nationalism collided head-on with determined French colonialism. The tribesmen of Morocco slew hundreds and were slain by the hundreds in return; neither side troubled unduly to spare the innocent. The occasion for the bloodshed was local in nature but worldwide in its implications: Who should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern...