Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime's most embarrassing problem was two corpses-those of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The official talk of suicide was obviously phony (see following story). At the beginning, the generals apparently tried to spare the brothers' lives, but after Diem escaped from the palace, the junta evidently fell back on the philosophy of 19th century British Poet Arthur Hugh Clough...
...Mike" McLaughlin's brand of bitterness is more Angostura than Angst. "What we love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining...
...morning sir. I work with SNCC--you know, with the Albany Movement. You've heard about the election next month of course. It's an important election and we're concerned that you realize how important it is that you vote in it. Have you a moment you can spare me, a moment for discussion? And don't call me 'ma'am'.--I could be your daughter...
...finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill sued. In 1956 he recovered $14,000 in damages from The People, a Sunday paper that had called him a "paid hack." Five years later, Churchill...
...spare time Franklin also founded a college in Philadelphia. The representatives of that school will play football this afternoon against Harvard, another noteworthy institution, whose somewhat more sober traditions, despite what the Record-American may say, are preserved to this day. Game time is 1:30 p.m. at (coincidentally) Franklin Field in Philadelphia...