Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapid order, John acquired a pushcart, a store, then the building of which the store was a part. At 26, he was operating a wholesale fruit business and a swank new shop, dealing in imported delicacies. The shop was near the Boston Public Library. Thereafter, John spent all his spare time in the library, poring over volumes on real-estate law and economics...
...retirement ceremonies were as spare and simple as the General himself. He made a short farevell speech, attended a reception, held a housewarming at the two-story, white stucco Wainwright house in San Antonio (named "Fiddler's Green," after the mythical heaven to which the souls of all cavalrymen are supposed to go).* Then it was all over. "Skinny" Wainwright was a civilian...
...from the Soviet view it was not all bad. Though Russians would have to keep belts tightened, there would be grain to spare for the Soviet Union's eastern European satellites which had spurned the Marshall approach, but, last year, ate 1.7 million tons of imported wheat. Most of that wheat had come from...
...Weather Ahead. Postwar Oxford's swollen enrollment is now giving Lewis too much to do to spare him time for extracurricular writing. During the "long vac" this summer he has been hard at work on his volume for "Oh-Hell," which is Oxford's name for the Oxford History of English Literature (still in preparation). During the college year ahead, in addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college...
...Bronx-born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...