Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
...treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...
Shepley and Blair a few months ago took on a spare-time project: editing and condensing into book form the reams of research they had compiled in their work on these previous TIME stories. When the manuscript was finished, the book publisher followed the usual procedure of offering serial rights to magazines. David Lawrence, editor of U.S. News & World Report, promptly bought the pre-publication serial rights for the readers of his magazine, and ran a condensed version of the book last week-a solid tribute to the accuracy and vitality of TIME'S reporting...
...Spare, soft-spoken Dr. Martino, 53, is by training not a diplomat or politician but an educator and a distinguished man of medicine. As rector of the University of Messina since 1943, he has made the university one of Italy's best. As a medical man specializing in the nervous system, he has done research and lectured in Berlin, Paris, London and South America, authored 150 publications. The son of a distinguished Sicilian (his father was mayor of Messina for 30 years) and married to a descendant of an old Sicilian noble family, Martino is not the fiery...
...squelch the regurgitation of summers abroad is to listen very attentively, occasionally brushing a tear from your cheek. When this has attracted sufficient notice you will be asked the inevitable question. Squaring your shoulders, you reply, "No, never. I'd love to go, just love to, but can't spare the money. The family, of course. Sole support. Work' in the mines all summer." Here you simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since...