Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pity's sake, spare us that indignity, and pass on to the one who did the most to turn that tragedy into a kind of solemn triumph: our First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy...
...sure you wouldn't like to change your mind now?" Smiling, Kenyatta shook his head and, accompanied by Britain's Governor Malcolm MacDonald (who will stay on as Governor-General), walked to the two flagpoles in the center of the stadium. In order to spare British onlookers all possible anguish, Kenyatta had tactfully ordered that the lights be dimmed during the moment the Union Jack was lowered, and then blazed on again as Kenya's flag was raised. The new banner: black for the people, red for the blood that has been shed, and green...
...even a few Roman Catholics, regard the infancy narratives in Luke and Matthew as too contaminated by myth to be considered reliable history. And even the more conservative scholars who accept these accounts as historically plausible agree that most of the famous Christmas legends are unsupported elaborations of the spare, precise biblical reports. In a new volume of reverent debunking called Born in Bethlehem (Helicon; $3.50), Dutch Theologian H. W. van der Vaart Smit borrows the conclusions of modern scriptural scholars to separate Christmas fact from Christmas fancy...
Stripe Down the Hood. At least, the new Formula Vee (for Volkswagen) class seems inflation-proof. Anybody who has a spare Beetle lying around the garage can turn it into a reasonable facsimile of a Grand Prix car-cigar-shaped body, roll bar and all-by buying a kit for $945. An extra $1,000 buys a brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number...
...some times infuriates by its bulk as much as it influences by its appeal. Each year the public is hit by an onslaught of 48 billion direct-mail ads, and the business of compiling mailing lists has become a highly automated industry made up of dozens of firms that spare no effort to capture another name. This year they will gross close to $1 billion renting names and addresses to anyone who has anything to sell. Lists can be rented with the names of 221,782 doctors, 2,476 patent lawyers, 18 safety-pin makers, 41 zoos, Cadillac owners...