Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Provincial Grocer. Vladimir Ulyanov sat on the stove in a spare kitchen in his grandfather's house and read Das Kapital, convinced that here at last was the weapon to bring down the state and lift oppression from the backs of the people. Among his first disciples were his younger brother and his sisters. While he worked for a law degree and wherever he went, Vladimir founded or joined Marxist study groups, and he traveled abroad to meet the exiled leaders of the outlawed Marxist party, then still known as the Social Democrats...
...fighter planes into a highly mobile quick-assault force. He is Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in an area covering one-third of the earth's land surface, including some 70 nations of the Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, and Southern Asia (USCINCMEAFSA). In his spare time, he is directing the evaluation of a controversial Army air assault division with which the Army hopes to prove that it needs a large air unit of its own for quick strikes. Air Force officers claim that the Army is merely trying to steal their troop-carrying...
...farmer's son with only a sixth-grade education, Osano has shown an uncanny ability to foresee and exploit opportunities. Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided...
...curriculum. He chaired the mock United Nations convention, the campus constitutional convention, and the University YMCA, while continuing to follow high school interest in debating, drama, and the band. In 1949 he entered the University's law school, edited the Nebraska Law Review, and lobbied during spare time in the state legislature for a Fair Employment Practices Committee. He still managed to spend enough time studying to graduate first in his class in 1951. His family hoped he would practice in Lincoln, but Sorensen headed for Washington...
...Only American. The Constitution as ratified was no more than the spare bones of Government, to be fleshed out and brought to life by Washington's first Administration. It is here that Rossiter makes his most convincing case for the cogency of Hamilton's constitutional theory and the brilliance of his administrative practice. As the most continentally minded, least parochial of the founders, Hamilton was arguably "the leading, because in an important sense the only, American of the 1790s...