Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, congressional and press critics raised the cry that the President had abrogated a longstanding pledge to spare Hanoi and Haiphong. Beyond the assurance that "population centers" would be avoided, the Administration had never in fact made any such promise. New York Times Columnist James Reston went so far as to fault Johnson for his offer to negotiate with Hanoi after "he said he would...
...Spice. Germans have long been famed for conspicuous consumption, but the first fad in the early years of postwar prosperity was the Fresswelle, or eating vogue. When that first craving for wurst, schnitzel, dumplings and chocolate bars was satisfied, they sank their spare income in the Autowelle, deserting bicycles and motor scooters for automobiles, and after that in the Wohnungswelle (new homes), and then the Reisewelle (fad for traveling). Now things are right back where they started, but on a higher, more sophisticated plane. Explained one Hamburg University political scientist: "Food is an obsession with Germany. It is the symbol...
...TIME to state that Sylvia Plath "adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards who practice poetry as abreaction" (aberration?) is to sanction what today is the "in" thing to dp-lift the lid off the cesspool and revel in its bad odors. Spare us the ravings of the "confessional poet": poetry is no place for psychotic self-purgation. Miss Plath is typical of those who, in the words of Poet GustaV Davidson, have "corrupted poetry by emptying it of music, magic and meaning...
...back a few years later and install Madame de Pompadour in the apartment next to his. An amateur botanist, he made its garden famous throughout Europe for its hothouse pineapples, coffee and figs. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette preferred the nearby, smaller Petit Trianon, but this did not spare either building when revolutionaries carted off their contents...
...different animal species frequently fight to a fatal finish; members of the same species seldom go so far. At the last minute, the animal getting the worst of it makes a gesture of submission and the victor, no matter how furious his rage, is compelled by the gesture to spare the victim's life...