Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall, spare Dr. Joseph B. Gilbert, 47, who practices in Georgia's Franklin and Hart counties, got his start in 1937. He was asked to see a 60-year-old victim of pneumonia whose white doctor was ill. Frightened but confident, Dr. Gilbert pulled his patient through. He has since treated whites continually, delivered eight white babies...
...Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression of slackness you know. You are being trained for a position of great responsibility. Punctuality is considered most vital in this organization. We demand the most absolute discipline and obedience...
...Hyde Park site would seem to fill the bill. It is within easy reach, over fine highways, of the nation's metropolis. In its 1,200 scenic acres there is room to spare for the necessary buildings...
When Writer-Producers Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano set out to produce a Technicolor Western, they decided they wouldn't spare the horses. They didn't: the picture cost $1,400,000. They thought it might be a good idea to incorporate all the time-tested chestnuts they could think of. They were confident that stringing all the horse-opera clichés together and playing them straight would be parody enough. Explains Fessier: "We grooved the tongue in the cheek. Why pull punches? We gave them everything...
Since he came home in June, Reporter Allen has spent most of his time on a hard-hitting campaign to get better prosthetic devices for amputees. In his spare time he has learned to type 45 words a minute on a left-handed typewriter, had his teeth fixed to soften the rasp in his voice, the better to talk on the radio...