Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, had never been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They had all gained weight. In spare moments they had played gin rummy and sipped afternoon tea. Nothing to it, really, indicated Actor Morgan...
Died. Richard Robert Wright,* 92, slave boy who grew up to be the top U.S. Negro banker, president of Georgia State Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter...
...soon transfer surplus arms to Latin American governments, warned War Secretary Robert Patterson last week, they will seek arms and training "elsewhere." The Secretary did not say where. But Argentina had already ordered jet fighters from Britain, and Russia had large stocks of German tanks and planes to spare...
...likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...
Through the glasses Whitey watched. Now they were past the half-mile pole, and the old horse was leading by a neck. Breathing heavily, Honey Cloud lumbered across the finish line with one length to spare. Whitey Abel, as surprised as nearly everyone else at Long Island's Aqueduct track, dropped his binoculars in the excitement. But ancient Honey Cloud, winner of the first race he had run in nearly six years, took it calmly. At the great age of 13 (comparable to a human's 45 years), the old horse stepped into the winner's circle...