Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient. Opening Dr. X's hospital locker, a fellow doctor found 18 vials of curare, most of them empty. Former County Prosecutor Guy W. Calissi questioned Dr. X, but the surgeon insisted that he was merely using the muscle relaxant for spare-time experiments on "dying dogs." Told that it was impossible to detect curare in tissue so many weeks after death, says Calissi, now a judge, he dropped his inquiry...
...lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files of index cards which contain each idea he has had about psychology, and the date it occurred...
...nastier. Or there may be things no one has ever mentioned in the press. The surprise resignation of Willy Brandt two years ago, and the recent revelations about President Kennedy's extra-martial affairs, should have taught us never to be surprised about what politicians do in their spare time...
...comes. A sympathetic translator takes the party on tours of the island. Sterling, feeling slighted, takes his anger out on Rubbo, accuses him of shooting too much film. Smallwood, ever optimistic, gets invited to a diplomatic reception, where he receives a bear hug and sympathy from Fidel, who cannot spare more attention than that. His time is consumed by a visiting dignitary from East Germany. If Rubbo were less tactfill and intelligent, Waiting for Fidel might just be the movie equivalent of the journalist's last refuge, the trusty How-I-Didn't-Get-the-Story story. What...
...their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually compulsory bribe...