Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marine was the "gas chamber," in which marines learn what to do if attacked with gas of the kind used by Colonel Utter in Viet Nam [Sept. 17]. I would sooner be gassed than lose an arm or my life. If by using tear gas we can spare lives, then I say "Congratulations, Colonel Utter...
...Spare the Needle. Other physicians have been cautiously trying DMSO on selected patients, and draw these tentative conclusions...
...less severe rheumatic conditions involving only one or two joints, such as bursitis and "tennis elbow," DMSO may spare the patient a painful injection into the middle of the joint. Doctors disagree as to how much of a cortisone-type drug dissolved in DMSO soaks into the joint, but patients report that they feel better and they are grateful for being spared the needle...
...Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...peasants they shot after baptising them. One of them, an American, wrote: 'I sent eight hundred and forty-one new souls to heaven this week.' And there is that German officer having fun in Peking: 'When I go pheasant shooting, I shoot cocks and spare hens; but when hunting Chinese, I kill them all, men and women, old and young...