Word: spared
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) His spare prose, particularly in his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), inspired acolytes and parodists. But his writings also redefined the notion of individual heroism after the indiscriminate carnage of World War I. His lonely protagonists were existentialists before their time...
GIORGIO ARMANI Deconstructed but never lax looking, suits from the Italian master came to signify spare elegance in the '80s and '90s, not to mention a quiet, confident sense of power...
...talks, her viewers--an estimated 14 million daily in the U.S. and millions more in 132 other countries--listen. Any book she chooses for her on-air book club becomes an instant best seller. When she established the "world's largest piggy bank," people all over the country contributed spare change to raise more than $1 million (matched by Oprah) to send disadvantaged kids to college. When she blurted that hearing about the threat of mad-cow disease "just stopped me cold from eating another burger!", the perceived threat to the beef industry was enough to trigger a multimillion-dollar...
Jared Chupaila (11 goals, 4 assists) wasperhaps the best, most versatile athlete on a teamloaded with athleticism. A wideout on the IvyLeague-champion football team in his spare time,he played the wing on faceoffs, playing physicaldefense, and was hard-nosed when the ball was onthe ground. Always ready to lay someone out, noone got back quicker on fast breaks...
...football team had its best season in 78 years, the women's soccer team was a couple of goals away from pulling off one of the biggest upsets in soccer history and the women's basketball team actually pulled it off, with three points to spare...