Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passer as well as rusher; against the New York Giants last month he hit Flanker Bobby Joe Conrad with a perfect 40-yarder for a TD. Over the season, Quarterback Johnson, 27, has connected on a respectable 53% of his passes; a cool, methodical signal caller, he invests his spare time at Washington University writing a dissertation on plastics for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering...
...with the Big Boys. Another ace Card, Larry Wilson, 28, spends his spare time in bed. Says his wife: "Considering how I have to nurse him all week, I wonder how he's willing to go out on a Sunday and play with those big guys...
...villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning. And in his spare time he has just finished writing a play in Spanish entitled The Burial of Count Orgaz, based...
...first time since early 1965, the French failed to make their regular monthly conversion of $34 million into gold. Reason for the shift: rising imports of goods and outflows of capital are cutting into France's once hefty balance of payments surplus. The country has few dollars to spare, and its bankers and businessmen want to hold onto them because they can earn higher interest rates on dollars than on French francs. Even so, a French Finance Ministry spokesman warned: "Next month we may be able to buy our $34 million worth of gold again...
...Cavers usually prefer coveralls, since any tight place can pull your sweatshirt up over your head, and then your chest gets painted with mud. To protect your head you wear a miner's hard hat with a carbide light. In your pockets are stuffed a bottle of water, a spare bottle of carbide, a flashlight, matches, and a candle...