Word: spare
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...list of new arts funding, including an extra C$50 million for the Canada Council for the Arts, Harper himself has not responded directly to Martel or commented in the media. A Harper spokesperson did say that the PM "reads a variety of books when he has some spare time." Martel concedes that the Prime Minister has a lot of demands on his time, but he is not willing to excuse Harper from his homework assignments entirely and notes that the two books he has sent so far are relatively short. The first, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich...
...should warn you when I'm not well," sings Jeff Tweedy midway through Sky Blue Sky, the sixth studio album by Wilco, the protean band Tweedy has fronted for a decade. Over the years, Tweedy's brooding lyrics--fueled by battles with anxiety and addiction--have often overshadowed the spare beauty of his songwriting. But Sky Blue Sky is bright and affecting, mixing doses of '70s soul on tracks like Side with Seeds and Hate It Here with the sun-drenched guitar rock of Impossibly Germany and What Light, on which Tweedy advises, "It's alright to be frightened...
...plight. I still feel awkward when they ask me for money and I am not able to give. I feel a certain tension when I walk past them, wanting to help them, but knowing that I can’t take away their problems by simply giving them some spare change...
...same people day in and day out has put a mark of familiarity on their faces. There’s even a certain level of informality with which I greet some of the ones that I notice more. There is a “Do you have any spare change?” followed by an “I’m sorry, brother, I don’t have any change on me.” And it usually ends with a “Thank you anyway, have a nice...
...returned to Jamestown, where his adversaries charged him with negligence in the death of two of his men killed by Indians. Smith was sentenced, again, to be hanged. Hours before he was to swing, Newport arrived up the James River with fresh settlers and supplies, intervening once more to spare Smith from the noose...