Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gossipy memoir in McCall's magazine, Dwight Eisenhower's former Cabinet Secretary Robert Gray revealed that the tart tongue of ex-Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams did not always spare even Ike himself. Adams, wrote Gray, was inclined to be particularly waspish over the President's habit of slipping away in the afternoons ("Good God, is he playing golf again?") and at occasional presidential demands for ultra-swift action ("What does he think I am, a goddam gazelle...
...Spare the Schmalz! Eisenhower's last presidential addresses-his State of the Union message and his televised farewell to the nation-drew a piebald response. The Denver Post, though unmoved by the State of the Union message ("moral, but it did not inspire"), was stirred by the valedictory speech to historical comparisons: "The parting messages of Dwight Eisenhower and George Washington had this in common-an essentially conservative tone, one of dignity and restraint...
...some 21 million farmers produce enough to feed 179 million Americans, with so much to spare that farm surpluses are a constant embarrassment to the Government. But plainly, Khrushchev's Communism had still not found a way to get some 100 million Russian peasants to do even a passable job of feeding themselves and the ever more numerous city dwellers...
...crew lit torches and stretched a guide rope through the darkness to the place where the cylinder had fallen. By the light of a bonfire they pitched a tent over the marked spot. Inside the tent they set up a stove and fed it with empty provision boxes and spare clothes soaked in used lubricants. Foot by foot a shaft sank down through the snow. After 30 hours of continuous work, it was 50 ft. deep, but still no sign of the oxygen cylinder...
...lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem...