Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONDON: Dick Morris, where are you? Britain?s Royal Family, stung by criticism following Princess Diana?s death, has called in pollsters to help reposition itself in the hearts of its subjects. The Royals, whose hereditary rule was supposed to spare them the vulgar pursuits of politicians, has asked British political polling firm MORI to create focus groups designed to make Buckingham Palace?s work reflect the "interests and concerns" of its subjects. Their Highnesses seeking the counsel of soccer mums? Next thing they?ll want to give Britain a constitution...
...Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...Cold Mountain (Atlantic Monthly Press) Imagine Odysseus walking through the blue mountains of North Carolina in the ghostly half-light at the end of the Civil War. Charles Frazier's miraculous (and best-selling) first novel is as spare as timeless myth, one man's yearning homeward. Yet its deeply local details, its twiggy smell of roots and solitary eccentrics, evoke the spirit of Thoreau--and the Taoist hermits who once haunted the Cold Mountains of old China...
...tree is under control, now all that's left to decorate is myself. It used to be enough to observe the holiday privately, with drapes drawn to spare the neighbors our annual frenzy of giving and getting. But now the pressure is on to make some kind of Christmas gesture to every Tom, Dick and Harry who happens along. Take the jolly receptionist in our dentist's office, who started showing up Dec. 1 dressed as a living gift to all humankind, with a huge red bow on the top of her head, ornamental-ball earrings and a scrub shirt...
...shut off shipments to countries on the U.N. embargo list. Later, "controls weakened and slackened, while economic considerations took over the political ones. As of the second half of 1993, Russia resumed sending major military supplies to the Middle East. They used the old way of supplying weapons and spare parts through third countries...