Word: spare
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stresses that the novel is not something she did in her spare time, because it makes it sound like less work than it actually...
...dorm room at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The walls, like those in college rooms everywhere, are plastered with pictures of friends and happy times, including a black-framed memorial to her hero, the Dell dude. It's a world away from the spare room she used to occupy at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. She never sat on the bed there; she didn't even sleep on it. Sheets had to be ironed perfectly for twice-weekly inspections, so like her fellow cadets, Fullilove simply slept on the floor. Yet she loved every moment...
Urbanic took the hand-cut paper back to the Science Center to finally print. She was done, with a little time to spare, before the deadline of five o’clock that afternoon...
...men’s basketball team, was in face-saving mode this weekend. On the verge of the Ivies’ first winless campaign in 40 years, the embattled doormat hosted two of the league’s next-easiest marks, Harvard and Dartmouth, in its penultimate chance to spare itself some embarrassment...
...Cardinale’s determination to spare the community from a “public attack on decency,” is both naive and egotistic (Op-ed, “The Other Phallus-Breaker”, Feb. 26). In defense of her actions against free speech, Cardinale states, “The statue was clearly created for its shock value and not to appeal to our artistic sensibilities.” What is clear is that Cardinale is incapable of separating her own views from the views of Harvard’s pluralistic community. The rest of her defense...