Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aids of illusion, exaltation, fanaticism, to conceal the harshness of destiny from their own eyes. The man who does not wear the armor of the lie cannot experience force without being touched by it to the very soul. Grace can prevent this touch from corrupting him, but it cannot spare him the wound. Having forgotten it too well, Christian tradition can only rarely recover that simplicity that renders so poignant every sentence in the story of the Passion...
Then the Generalissimo again dedicated himself to China's unity. "There are some people . . . who have gone so far as to interfere violently with the efforts of the National Government to establish order. . . . The Government is acting to correct this situation. We shall spare no effort to bring internal order and security to the nation...
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra proclaimed a national day of mourning. Neighboring countries rushed plasma and medicines. Railway men doubted that even Quinche's famed Virgin could prevent railway disasters until Ecuador could buy new rolling stock and spare parts from...
...desperately needy world there were few other buyers. Why? Yankee Trader. Chief trouble had been FLC's notion that it should sell surpluses to foreign governments only for dollars. This policy flopped because foreign governments either 1) have no dollars at all, or 2) none to spare. Nor did the policy make sense to U.S. businessmen. For every dollar FLC drained off there would be one less dollar for foreign buyers to spend for U.S. exports. Thus the only sales'of any size to foreign governments have been $8 million of railroad equipment to the oil-rich Iranian...
...Russian relations can prevent such a war, that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin. Americans who are reasonably sure that Russian policy is seldom motivated by hurt feelings and reasonably fed up with Soviet truculence may wish that Author Scott would write a similar book of etiquette for Russians...