Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should Huong remain President, in defiance of the Communists, ready to fight if necessary but trying to open negotiations with the enemy? Should he step aside and make way for a new chief of state more acceptable to the conquerors at the gates? Would the Communists spare Saigon in any case? At week's end Huong still clung stubbornly to the presidency. But it seemed clear that Saigon would have to replace him or risk destruction. The almost certain successor: General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, the neutralist Buddhist who, in a still-remembered moment of glory, helped overthrow the dictatorial...
...never known a letter like this to do much, but brother, can't you spare some change? John C. Fields...
...cross-country skis or picnics in an old gazebo on a pond behind the office. Blair gazes out of his office window at photogenic Mt. Wantastiguet. And Ketchum's family has become a working advertisement for the magazine's editorial pitch of self-sufficiency: they spend spare hours milking goats, making maple syrup and, of course, delivering the occasional calf...
...Ford Administration expects Hathaway to protect America's interior adequately, especially as "Project Independence" pressure grows for accelerated mining of coal and oil shale. Unfortunately, objections of environmentalists in Washington will not shake Senate reluctance to reject a Cabinet nomination. Only extensive public pressure can now spare the country the critical environmental damage that Stanley Hathaway would permit as Secretary of the Interior...
...Mansions. Brown's spare approach is most apparent in his life-style in office. The conservative Reagan had operated in rather sumptuous fashion; he traveled in a Cessna jet or in limousines guarded by a squad of highway patrolmen. Brown put the limousines up for auction; he flies commercial and rides in a 1974 Plymouth with one plainclothesman. He vows never to move into the $1.3 million Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts...