Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every spare minute and every spare penny went for packages of food and clothing. He collected what he could from friends, bought the rest himself. He sent 300 pairs of shoes, 480 sets of underwear, overcoats, blankets, hundreds of cans of food. In two years, he sent some 600 packages, totaling more than 6,000 pounds. He helped friends of his original friends. In all, he aided 25 families...
...much had his one-man Marshall Plan cost him? McAllister insisted he did not know. He knew that postage alone had cost him $700 in one year. He admitted that it had taken most of his savings. Said McAllister: "I spent as much as I could spare. Don't you think it's more important for kids to have milk and shoes than to watch the bankroll...
...sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop in the area's history to visit all 800 of its Methodist churches...
...Hail V.V.S.L!" Almost since anyone can remember, Juliana's sturdy hands have been encased in spotless white gloves; yet they have never lost what only few royal hands dare possess-the common touch. Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book...
...Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...