Word: spared
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SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The light, the colors and the fruits of Italy are brightly evoked by a great modern Italian poet, but his musings on his fellow men are somber. The translations faith fully reflect the poet's spare, luminous language...
...nonaligned" stance, Sukarno took equipment from any country willing to lend him the money to pay for it. As a result, the electricity plant at Makasar, for example, operates on generators from four different countries, making it impossible to cannibalize one machine to supply spare parts for the rest -and requiring the services of four separate groups of maintenance...
...worse than the admissions crush at the Ivies or Oxbridge, so it seems, is the placement struggle currently taking place in that self-styled educational paradise, the Soviet Union. Although Russia claims to spare no rubles when it comes to schooling, its universities and technical institutes are sadly inadequate to meet the national demand...
While Malraux sweltered, awaiting a hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old Anatole France. The upshot was a reduction of Malraux's sentence to one year, which colonial authorities quietly did not bother to enforce...
...sumps, and they were found to come from compressor bearings. Pilots have had to call off flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three-jet Trident is also having troubles, though less serious...