Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Monday in Denver, Mayor Richard Y. Batterton presides at the opening of a city-wide week of prayer to request divine guidance for citizens and city officials alike, so as to spare the community any repetition of the police scandals that shamed Denver last year. Next Sunday, at the climax of this rogation period, more than 200 clergymen will read to their congregations an admonition from // Chronicles: "If my people . . . shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal...
...Wilde leaped from his car and hit the ditch. Then, he reported: "The road suddenly came alive with soldiers, who rushed over to where I was lying and forced me at gunpoint to get up and walk over to the car (which, as if not inflammable enough, had two spare cans of gas in the back...
...three-story house stands on the corner of Spring and Mott streets in Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox...
...Syrian fellahin crowded onto a dusty field last week for a joyous ceremony: 3,927 men were to receive titles to the land they and their ancestors had always tilled for the enrichment of others. Brightly dressed sword dancers swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down with dictatorship! Down with Communism! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser! Down with...
...Francisco office cluttered with autographed photos of show business stars, boxes of spare Homburgs, and a "money tree" decorated with dollars, Real Estate Tycoon Louis Robert Lurie, 73, presides over his many business interests. They span movies ("I made all the early Tarzan pictures") to mining ("My record is perfect-I've lost every cent I ever invested"). He is also a lucky angel, having bankrolled such Broadway hits as Song of Norway and Pajama Game. But he made his fortune-estimated at more than $50 million-in buildings. He has built 226 of them, owns two dozen large...