Word: spare
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tell TIME that the Pentagon and State Department had made plans last week to fly FBI agents to a Navy warship in the region, ready to arrest bin Laden or any other al-Qaeda operatives caught alive. The FBI blocked the plan, claiming it didn't have agents to spare for arrests that might never happen...
...buzzer”. This doorbell-like utility used to summon thy man servant eliminates the fear that at some point we may need to knock on the stall next to us and utter those prolific words, “Do you have a square to spare?” And yet, the toilet is just one of the many jewels in this lavatorial crown...
...postseason ERA. Hate The Curse. Hate Tim McCarver’s obvious broadcasting bias. Hate how the sportscasters fawn over what class acts the Yankees are—as if Seattle’s John Olerud and Edgar Martinez ran around strangling cats in their spare time...
...most colleges, as you enter an undergraduate dormitory, you walk down a hallway full of open doors. In the afternoon, students congregate in rooms on each side, chatting, doing homework in groups, watching movies. Spare time is spent socially, interacting with friends rather than with a computer screen...
...like to interview all these characters that give Cambridge its distinctive personality—the homeless woman on Mass Ave, the saleswomen in Mudo, the Spare Change man in front of Au Bon Pain, the guy at the smoothie stand in the T. I have always wondered who they are, how long they’ve been around and, perhaps most baffling of all, where they come from...