Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen-trustees who controlled it, Indianapolis' Second Presbyterian Church was long on status, short on liturgical demands, spare on social and educational sidelights-an only-on-Sundays kind of church whose minister preached soothing sermons. But all that was before the stormy ministry of Dr. Paul Franklin Hudson, 47, who came from Pittsburgh in July of 1960 to take over...
When the students asked if they could exchange their sheets at one of the depots that was open, the HSA representative replied that they could not, because the other depots did not not have enough spare bundles. The HSA made no attempt to deliver extra bundles to one of the other stations to serve for emergency hand-outs...
...atmosphere as soon as it can get ready to do so. For two months, the U.S. had patiently waited, staging only underground tests that produce no fallout, while the Soviet Union set off some 31 nuclear blasts, the biggest of them in defiance of a United Nations plea to spare the world the most monstrous man-made explosion in history. Now U.S. patience was exhausted...
...family. He returned to teach English and history at his old high school, at 21 passed his teacher's exams ahead of all other candidates in Burma. At college and later on the staff at Pantanaw, U Thant became a lifelong friend of U Nu; both were prolific spare-time journalists, specializing in spirited anticolonial articles...
...army, Nkrumah bought arms, Jeeps and heavy equipment from both East and West, though it involved the expensive and inefficient process of duplicate stockpiling of spare parts and duplicate training of troops. As a first step toward his dream of Pan-African leadership, Nkrumah laid out $21 million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand...