Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet is always ready for emergencies, particularly in times of tension. In a mood reminiscent of Stanley Baldwin, who was never happier than when confessing to errors, Mr. Chamberlain himself took full blame for sending out the "D" order, admitted it was a mistake caused by a desire to "spare the public unnecessary agitation...
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who was best man at Zog's wedding last year, arrived to form a "provisional Albanian Government" and II Duce, as quickly as he could spare the time from his Palazzo Venezia desk, was scheduled to announce in Tirana just what he intended to do with his new possession. Best guess was that it would become a protectorate under the sovereignty of His Imperial Majesty King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy...
...career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing him as the red man's ambassador to his friend, Andrew Jackson...
From up-&-coming Nocona 18 riders set out in March with a rousing send-off in their ears, behind them a caravan of trucks and trailers for spare horses, sedans for the judges and Promoter Parton. Eighteen miles out, the lone woman in the race was disqualified when a judge caught her riding in a truck while her horses peered out placidly from a trailer. When the going got tough, five other riders dropped out. Nevertheless, Promoter Parton and his pals had a rare outing, a lot of it in wayside saloons. But as the California line neared they began...
...away; Sarawak, 350; Hong Kong, 1,000), France (Saigon, in French Indo-China, 300), The Netherlands (Borneo, 500), the U. S. (Manila, 700). From the little Spratly Islands, Japanese planes or submarines could attack any vessel in the China Sea, and get back again with plenty of fuel to spare...