Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...20th Precinct. Manhattan, checked in at the station house to pick up a spare passenger, then set off on a routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked...
...Gaulle's is the "greatness" of all petty and myopic troublemakers who can't see beyond their personal ambitions and/or the absurd glories of some manmade, artificially delineated space-on-a-map to the genuine glory: the ultimate unity of mankind. Spare us such self-appointed saviors...
...heavy with German works (Beethoven is played nearly twice as much as Tchaikovsky, the most popular non-Germanic composer), and it has no hampering patriotic duties to the national culture: it plays very little music writ ten in its own land. But its hybrid birth and its international spirit spare it the national mannerisms that mark most European orchestras, and it plays with a freshness and flexibility that make each orchestra unique...
...guide its postwar comeback, Hoechst, true to its tradition, chose not an administrator but a scientist: Professor Karl Winnaker, 59, who spends his spare time writing books on chemistry. "You don't need a hobby if you choose the right profession," says Winnaker, who proudly carries five dueling scars on his face and keeps his scalp shaved except for a few wisps in the middle. As a respected scientist, he has been awarded the Federal Republic's second highest civilian decoration, frequently represents West Germany at international nuclear conferences...
...presidential inauguration, blinking in the cold sunlight like Tiresias. the blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...