Word: spared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would do that but a spy? The S.A.O. grabbed him. He laughed at them, saying he was just a troubadour-vigorously playing and singing for his life. They gave him money and let him go. Then the French army arrested him as an S.A.O. man, suspecting that his 20 spare guitar strings were really intended as parts for plastic bombs...
...horses were running at Agua Caliente. To a tall, spare, compulsive horseplayer named Ernest Havemann, that was reason enough to abandon temporarily the mission that had brought him cross-country to Los Angeles. He caught the next plane south. He had been to the Mexican race track many times before, usually in the same noble cause: a crack at the track's 5-10 pool, a lush bale of lettuce divided among bettors who have picked the most winners in the fifth through the tenth races.* Havemann invested $96 in an array of 48 likely combinations, and kissed...
...doctor or nurse who tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
...mother. It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home. The mother was Eleanor Perry, 46, who had spent the time she could spare from child rearing in writing plays; one of her scripts (The Third Best Sport) had once had a moderate run on Broadway...
...make a settlement of the automation question a condition for ending the strike, it will go on forever. If a wage agreement can be arrived at, the printers should go back to work, leaving the automation question to be arbitrated by the Federal government. If the President can spare a few minutes from his tax charts, he may find that it is not tax reform, but a labor policy, that this country needs most desperately...