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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drop to the bottom, touching the shell and commencing to rot). Second, coat them with vaseline (to clog the porous shell and keep moisture and oxygen away from the yolk). For good measure, they had taken two live chickens. Michel promised them, "If you lay one egg, I will spare your life." The chickens contributed their lives to the larder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Everyman's Dream | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...four shuttles were flight-worthy at any one time. A severe parts shortage, which NASA concealed, made it necessary for each shuttle to share parts with the others. One NASA official testified before the Rogers Commission that the agency "would have been brought to its knees" by the spare parts shortage had there been no Challenger disaster...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: The Seamy Side of the Shuttle | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...main selling points of the new machines is simplicity. All models currently on sale are equipped with built-in programming to spare customers the trouble of learning how to use separate commercial word- processing software. The operating instructions are minimal: with a few simple commands, sentences and paragraphs can be switched around or type styles changed on the display screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wordsmith Pure and Simple | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Later, his mother married Bennie Reed, an auto worker. In 1942, Reed moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, where his mother worked in various wartime industries. As a teenager, he half-heartedly attended Buffalo public schools, he wrote a jazz column for a local newspaper in his spare time...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...Terrorists were threatening to kill the Americans and Indian National Mithileshwar Singh, also a Beirut University College professor, unless Israel released 400 imprisoned Arabs by the following midnight. But as the deadline expired, the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which holds the four captives, said it would spare their lives "until further notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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