Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Augustus W. Bennett of New York, back from Washington with his wife & three children, lacked the heart to evict the tenants to whom he had sublet, instead moved in with a friend. The hardship was endurable: in Utilitycoon John Wilkie's home, the Bennetts got "eleven or twelve" spare rooms...
Honors at 16. Luckman is well aware of this. But he has always learned fast. Born in Kansas City, of a family with little spare cash, he started selling newspapers at nine, later jerked sodas, delivered groceries, clerked. This didn't prevent him from graduating, at 16, with top honors in a class of 2,000 from Northeast High School-or from being class president, yearbook editor, prom chairman, debating captain and a member of the track team. That he was voted most-likely-to-succeed was anticlimactic...
...sketch the Boer War for the folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...
Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers...
Elsewhere the picture was darkened by overcrowding, shortage of sanitary facilities, a lack of most civilian comforts. In all of Rome there were only 200 spare beds, and no Army funds available for new construction...