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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide cutting heads. Price tag: $60,000 each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers, a 1976 pickup and a beat-up four-door blue American Motors station wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...scene in the packed Senate galleries looked almost like a replay of the great civil rights celebrations of the 1960s. Black leaders, including Martin Luther King Sr., Coretta King, Urban League Director Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Chief Benjamin Hooks, applauded, cheered and embraced. With one vote to spare, the Senate last week approved, 67 to 32, a constitutional amendment that would give the District of Columbia two Senators and one or two Representatives, depending on the outcome of the 1980 census. Already passed by the House, the bill now heads to the states for ratification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Victory for D.C. | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...saved. And the English Department formed Morton Bloomfield out of the dust of Widener, and of the dust of books was he fashioned. And the people looked upon him, and were bored, even unto death. But the English Department was firm in its resolve and would not spare the people. And they suffered mightily. And Morton sent a plague of horrible, unprepared lectures upon them, and they languished in pain all the days of the fall. Then Morton sent upon the people two pestilences of papers. And the people groaned while performing the tasks, murmuring against the English Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 13 | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...helping Julie with her book on her mother, and David is at work on a biography of his grandfather. It is a world of words at San Clemente for the time being. Nixon relishes having the spare time at last for such things, and for just reading and thinking, contemplating events instead of reacting instantly to them. He has even worked out a Nixon rule of knowledge for Presidents. "Knowing a little about everything won't work. Knowing a great deal about important things is essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Nixon as Grandfather | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...quarrel, Peking apparently decided it was time to end the Albanian drain on China's resources-more than $4 billion since 1954. According to the official Chinese news agency, Peking had been showering grain, steel, tractors and trucks on the ungrateful Albanians when China could not spare them. "The Chinese people scrimped on food and clothing and tried their best to aid Albania in the spirit of proletarian internationalism," the agency complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Diplomatic Offensive | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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