Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peggie kept house in their small, spare, $70-a-month apartment. She gave callers the once-over through a peephole in the front door, although she chattered loudly and publicly over the pay telephone in the lobby. Curiously, the Dennises had no telephone. Now no longer active in the party, she brought up their second baby, Gene (bom in 1942), and prepared large meals for her chubby husband. The Dennises were scarcely noticed by the neighbors until the congressional inquiry disclosed his identity...
Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have...
...Brooklyn Democrat himself, he observed carefully. Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time to work something...
Sylvia, who also runs a talent agency and books theater parties in her spare time, charges $10 for ten months of club membership. For this, the member gets a chance to buy a pair of tickets, at the box-office price, to the club's monthly show selection, or an alternate. He also gets the club newspaper's breathless bulletins on forthcoming shows and, as an occasional "bonus," a chance to buy tickets at a discount to a preview...
...Houston club. He likes expensive hobbies. Last year his planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time hunting on his 15,000-acre ranch with his wife and five children. There are weeks when they see little of him. He likes to dash around the country in one of his two planes, sometimes takes the whole family along...