Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vincent W. Van Gogh grew up with his uncle's paintings and has devoted part of his life to a study of the man behind them. Mr. Van Gogh, a consultant engineer by profession, pursuing this research on his great uncle in spare moments, has brought many important documents to light and has written a series of articles that gives a fully dimensioned portrait of the artist...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...
...favorite Central Asian "virgin lands" region, which was counted on to boost this year's grain harvest 6% above 1958's 141 million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar situation Nikita Khrushchev in January fired Kazakhstan's party secretary...
...Atlanta-based Big Apple grocery chain (50 stores), which is largely owned by him and his three brothers, finds nothing wrong with buying from another brother for his chain-when his brother meets price and quality requirements. Still other firms condone profitable outside interests as devices to spare their executives from high-bracket income taxes-one of the chief reasons for sideline interests. San Francisco Management Consultant Leland...
...than did his enemies in the field. His attack on Russia, his failure to follow through in North Africa, his preference of annihilation to retreat, and finally his own retreat into a world of pure fantasy brought on his doom. When the end came, he had no wish to spare Germany. After all. "those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed...