Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, played host to the President of Panama, one of the world's smallest. In the same C-54, the Sacred Cow, that flew Roosevelt to Yalta, José Antonio Remón and his attractive wife Cecilia reached Washington with only a few hours to spare before a presidential dinner in their honor. They were to spend the night in the White House, then move across Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House and a round of wreath-laying, receptions and a return banquet for Ike. Next stop: New York, where President Remon, a superheated baseball fan, hopes to look...
...Holloway, the husband, has been a perfect breadwinner. When, one night, he comes home moderately looped, his wife says, "Coming home drunk, well, I'll give you apiece of my mind." Holloway counters with "It will have to be a very small piece, you don't have much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess is a pleasant cordial to end the film. Valeric Hobson and Nigel Patrick...
...most noteworthy religious experiments since World War II has been that of the French worker-priests (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950)-young priests who take jobs and live as workers, saying Mass, hearing confessions and carrying on their pastoral functions in their spare time. The long-range aim of the movement: to reach anticlerical French workingmen who have been notoriously easy prey for Communism...
...reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, Bernice Freeman, 48, in her spare time once edited a weekly in nearby San Rafael. On her staff was an amiable cub reporter named George Boles. "George didn't turn out to be a very good reporter," she recalls, "but he had a flair for excitement and wrote the most marvelous stories. Only we couldn't print them-libel, you know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit...
...orders already on corporate books. The cuts were made to bring engine production in line with overall reductions in plane production and the reduced Air Force flying program (TIME, Sept. 14). Another reason for the cut: jet engines have been improved to such an extent that not so many spare engines are needed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott explained that the flying time of a jet, without an overhaul, was originally estimated at 100 hours. But the new engines run for more than 250 hours. Said Defense Secretary Charles Wilson: "This is just like ordering a big beefsteak, a pound...