Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mandela became a disguise artist: dressed as a garage worker, he once wheeled a spare tire down the main street of Johannesburg under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...
...aged 25-45. Death certificates record 20,000 cases (three-fourths of them men) annually. But many authorities believe the actual number is two or three times as great, because many suicides are never detected or are deliberately misrepresented as accidental deaths in order to collect insurance or to spare relatives...
Television is the roughest surgeon. Trimming feature-length movies to fit into 90-minute afternoon slots (and spare plenty of time for commercials) leaves many films at about half-size−65 minutes. Cutters first remove all sex, violence (which TV saves for its own shows), mistreatment of children and animals, slighting mention of minority groups, profanity. Profanity uttered in the middle of a sentence is blotted over with tape, leaving an uncomfortable "bloop" in the sound track. Cuts in The Cruel Sea somehow made two ships one, left much of the dialogue senseless and many episodes pointless, reduced salty...
...employee who drove a tan car when Webb wanted all company cars to be black found his sedan had been removed from the parking lot and repainted while he was at work. Webb is too busy to spend much time at his retirement cities. But he did manage to spare a day last week to talk with a group of medical researchers about the establishment of a research center for gerontology at Phoenix's Sun City. "When I see what we've built," he says, "it's the most satisfying thing that's ever happened...
...year low of $16.2 billion) is sure to revive the argument-much favored by the British press-that eventually the U.S. will have no choice but to raise its gold price. The worldwide market crash has made securities less attractive and gold more so as a repository for spare capital. And not least important, once a man catches gold fever he is apt to suffer from it for the rest of his life...