Word: spare
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...direct violation of various UN treaties, does not merely extend to youngsters. Iran takes silver to China’s gold in the contest for overall leading global executioner, and Ahmadinejad has led his country to a 300 percent increase in executions since taking office in 2005. In his spare time, Ahmadinejad also imprisons academics, detains students, and jails journalists and human rights defenders...
...compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...
...Shea’s life, I am reminded of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who argued that God deserves special praise for “all things counter, original, spare, strange.” Perhaps this explains why, when the wrecking balls begin to gouge holes in Shea’s alienating concrete exterior this fall, I will feel a peculiar yet visceral pang of sadness...
...this precaution, the sight of a Harvard student trolling the Square’s nighttime streets with headphones tucked into their ears is not uncommon. Students also need to take greater responsibility for their room keys and the security of their dorm rooms. Rather than leaving windows open and spare keys “hidden” near their doors, students should lock up and stop thieves before they have the chance to steal. It falls to students to take actions to prevent future crimes Both HUPD has taken steps to secure Harvard’s campus, but we live...
...Spare a thought for Yuriko Koike; she's in the wrong decade...