Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just don't want to waste spare on shelters that may not be absolutely necessary," Wiggins explained. "You would be surprised at the room shortage and the large number of University supplies that must be stored in basements." Wiggins added that he is giving the matter careful thought...
...provide a decent base, for their play is as black and white as the actors' costumes. After five minutes no one doubts that boobery is the best that the leaders can manage, that soldiers are great guys if only left alone, and that war is a pretty stupid business. Spare fare indeed, especially when larded with such banalities as the British general praying to God for victory "before the Americans come." Also, using thirty-one songs from the war period, although an effective stimulant to nostalgia, reduces the area of irony so important to satire, leaving the worn jokes...
...enlightened moment the Corporation designated Elmwood as the residence of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and promised to spare no expense in restoring the house to its original elegance. Certainly, there was much to restore. Elmwood's owner until 1962 had been Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, widow of a Harvard professor of Fine Arts and a strong-willed woman who brooked no meddling with her crumbling mansion. Shunning modern comforts, she lived by 19th Century candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared...
When Mrs. Porter died a year ago, changes came quickly. Cambridge immediately put in the sewer, for one thing. Then restorations began, and Harvard set about making good on its promise to spare no expense. Before anything else, modern fixtures were installed (plumbing, electricity, heating), and the grounds were overhauled. Then the structural supports of the house were put in order. Finally, architects and artisans started the long process of finishing the house in authentic Colonial style. Magnificent flooring (wood-pegged, not nailed) was put down in the first-floor reception room and dining room. (It is singularly comforting that...
...Communist Central Committee. The Sino-Soviet split seriously hampers the air force (3,000 planes, half of them old-fashioned MIG-15 fighters), which has been dependent on Russia for aircraft, jet fuel and spare parts. The split with Moscow doubtless upset many high-ranking officers, and last May the party launched one of the biggest of its periodic cleansings of the armed forces. Nineteen new army regulations were announced. Their aim was to "place the army under absolute party leadership and to guarantee that the army will advance victoriously in line with the directives of Party Chairman...