Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screen, the cops are closing in for the final shootout. With seconds to spare, they bear down on the bad guys' hideaway, pull up to the curb...
...followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
During the night Kissinger, relate the Kalbs, "had reached a major decision: Russia had to be stopped-not only to save Israel, but, in his mind, to spare the world from the possibility of a big-power confrontation. The Soviet airlift and alert had changed his attitude about Israel's capacity to win a quick victory. Just as he had misjudged prewar intelligence, so too had he misjudged the will and capability of the Arabs and the duplicity of the Russians. He was now determined to open a massive airlift of American military supplies to Israel. 'We tried...
...work that seem to guarantee a significant Soviet role in the Middle East for years to come. The Soviets have been redoubling their diplomatic efforts in the Arab states that bracket Egypt: Libya, Syria and Iraq. Egypt and Syria still depend upon the Soviet Union for military supplies, and spare parts for current equipment will dictate a relatively close relationship for some time...
...room mud huts. The people are largely illiterate, and some are afraid to report the disease for fear they will be socially ostracized and deprived of their jobs. "Some of these people would sooner travel 100 miles to a temple of Shitala to pray to her to spare their children than report to the nearest vaccination center a few miles away," says an Indian health officer...