Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorized to order it out could not be found. He, in turn, was hunting for the one doctor qualified to say that it was set to go. That cost 33 precious minutes. Said Dr. James Schofield: "We made a basic error trying to spare people's feelings. There's got to be just one boss...
...information on the Salk vaccine and its effectiveness to 75 nations through U.S. Ambassadors, and the World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. The U.S. Department of Commerce put an immediate embargo on future shipments of the vaccine, and experts thought that the U.S. would have little to spare for export before 1957. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia...
...popular song of the 1920's had been "My God, How the Money Rolls In." After 1929, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance" took its place. When the economic system collapsed before those who had criticized it during the 1920's, they needed only a reasonable alternative to alienate themselves from it. They were convinced that something must be done. Seven million college-age young people were unemployed. Teachers were being fired; low salaries were being cut still further. Capitalism seemed on the rocks. And it appeared that only the Communist party...
...which had sparked the original trouble among the junior coalition partners. In view of his forthcoming trip to Washington, Scelba asked the Chamber of Deputies to postpone a vote on it. His request required a majority of those present, or 275 votes. He won with but one vote to spare (the vote was 276 to 272). Remarked Scelba quietly: "Even a majority of one is sufficient for the next 20 days." His trip to the U.S. was safe...
...least one big IBM computer. At Lockheed, for example, a brain is given all the characteristics of a plane, e.g., weight, wing stress, etc., then "flown" at imaginary speeds, put into dives, etc. Swiftly and accurately, the brain tells what would happen in real flight. In its spare time, the brain solves production problems by coordinating thousands of workers with thousands of parts flowing into plane assembly lines...