Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried Theodore Atanasoff, Bulgarian trade representative, it seemed like a good idea at the time. His trade mission had been sent to Germany last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited...
Just Call Me Ike. Later in the week, the General repeated his denials in Manhattan. He had gone there to visit with Thomas J. Watson, spare, ascetic president of International Business Machines, and to acquaint himself with some of the problems he will face after Jan. 1, when he becomes president of Columbia University...
...spare time, hard-working Mrs. Vining has been studying Japanese. She had been hired merely to teach Akihito English (he has Japanese instructors in everything else), but she found it hard to get the prince to pay attention. So many learned professors and eminent lawyers had lectured Akihito on so many weighty matters that his learning edge was dulled...
Most of the 300,000 Japanese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, refused to believe that the war is over and that their side lost. It was the strange mission of tall, spare Father Hugo Lassalle, S.J., to convince them...
...dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where he was in the leather business. For nine years she lived the superficially quiet life of a well-to-do housewife, spent her spare time designing clothes for amateur theatricals. Then she was divorced ("it was all very friendly-we just decided we didn't get on together...