Word: spare
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...Pentagon had made clear before fighting began that while it hoped to spare the lives of ordinary soldiers in the Iraqi army, since they would be needed to stabilize the country after the war, U.S. forces would seek to kill Republican Guard units that did not surrender. But the U.S. wielded its sword so deftly that relatively little carnage remained. The battlefields south of Baghdad are pocked with relatively few of the craters that would have been produced by the carpet bombing of masses of soldiers. Instead one finds blown-out tanks and other vehicles, usually standing alone...
Delma Banks Jr. was as good as dead on March 12, 2002, when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution with only a few minutes to spare. That was his 15th scheduled execution date. A black man convicted of murder in 1980 by an all-white jury, Banks appealed his death sentence on the grounds of racial bias, defense incompetence and prosecutorial misconduct. Only these last two claims were accepted for review...
Rather than faulting them for improper developing of prints or weak “visual arrangement skills,” Moss would have been wise to laud these students for investing themselves in learning a new skill and working hard to create such impressive works in their spare time, when nobody is giving them a grade or even requiring them to attend class...
Both of the Crimson’s boats had strong weekends, with the A boat finishing near the top of the pack and the B winning with time to spare...
...design is my true love,” she says. “I was always the nerdy little kid who liked to design houses in her spare time...