Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most dramatic change of fiscal heart last week was in West Germany. On the eve of the Anderson-Dillon visit, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer abruptly cut his country's cackle about being short of spare cash: his Cabinet hastily announced "complete agreement" to launch West Germany's first real foreign-aid program in 1961. Under the projected billion-dollar program, Germany will at last make available to the capital-hungry underdeveloped nations a significant hunk of the record $7.4 billion gold and hard-currency reserves accumulated during the spectacular German economic comeback...
...Serantes had spoken out to lead the Cuban church against Castro as once he led it for Castro. Seven years ago, after the unsuccessful July 26 assault on Moncada Barracks, the courageous churchman had gone into the hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University, and 100 Jesuit priests. Supporting Castro were a score of liberal-minded...
Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, at 32, is one of the youngest of Jack Kennedy's youthful organization, but a weatherbeaten old veteran in point of service. A spare, bespectacled intellectual, he was born in Nebraska, the son of a fire-breathing Republican lawyer who, as a political follower of the late George Norris, became Nebraska's attorney general. After graduating from the University of Nebraska law school with top honors, Sorensen followed his political instincts to Washington as a young bureaucrat, worked for the Federal Security Agency, then for Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas before signing on with freshman...
...chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse of the surgical future is a tentative plan to use refrigerated corpses (here, according to Gushchev and Vasihev, the girl stenographer faints) as sources of human spare parts...
...Jersey. In 14 years in Congress, six of them in the Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader...