Word: spare
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...happened to most of us at one time or another: an annoying person takes up residence on our couch or in the spare bedroom and for one reason or another cannot be removed from the house. The classic of the genre is, of course, The Man Who Came to Dinner, which, as we speak, is doubtless playing in a community theater somewhere in the United States. You remember: an arrogant author, on lecture tour, falls, breaks his leg and must stay with a small-town family for weeks, wreaking havoc on their formerly orderly lives...
...complaining. Here, the tea may be Lipton and the coffee instant, but the potatoes are nothing short of divine.Thomas B. Dolinger ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is teaching English in Stalowa Wola and, in his spare time, pondering potatoes...
...analyze complex systems with many interacting variables, to master new interfaces, to find and validate information in vast databases, to build and maintain extensive social networks crossing both virtual and real-world environments, to adapt existing technology to new uses. And they're learning all this in their spare time...
...split into stages that can be hiked over a weekend or even an afternoon. "There's something for everyone," says Clow. Coastal towns along the trail offer rustic pansiyon (guesthouse) accommodation, but for a real slice of local life, Clow recommends staying in village homes: many families keep a spare room for walkers. Ah, the exhilaration of watching the sunset over the Mediterranean from atop a marble sarcophagus in an ancient Lycian burial site?how very Indiana Jones. trekkinginturkey.com
...behest. Yale University President Richard C. Levin issued a statement via e-mail to Yale staff last Friday, pledging to “cooperate fully with these government investigations” and stating his expectation that the faculty would do the same. “We will spare no effort to remedy any deficiencies in our practices,” Levin said in a statement released by the university on Monday, when the Associated Press first reported on the story. The investigation is not the first time Yale has come under fiscal scrutiny this year. The HHS inspector general reported...