Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas or California--precincts of hell to Establishment toffs--but that is unlikely. No one has ever claimed that Diana is indifferent to her sons, and she will continue to be based in England, if only because the Queen would not allow the heir and the spare to spend much time anywhere else...
...chapel at 8:30. Lessons begin at 9, pause briefly for an 11:20 biscuit break, then resume. Lunch is at 1:25: a meat, two vegetables and a traditional pudding. And then, after lunch, he forays onto those famous playing fields. At Eton there are few spare moments for reflection, and it may be just as well. One can only guess the thoughts last week of the 13-year-old registered at that ancient school as William of Wales, H.R.H. Prince...
Reason: baby boomers are rewriting all the old rules. Many are past the expenses of buying a house and raising a family. They are thinking of retirement and worrying that future Social Security and corporate pensions will be inadequate. So they are putting their spare cash into stocks on a gigantic scale...
Just pray you don't have any midterms coming up for a while. You'll need all your spare time to start killing your friends, all over again...
...famous essay, "The Talented Tenth" (in which he argued that only by creating a small group of college-educated men could blacks achieve their racial destiny). Though Gates' eloquence and West's astonishing erudition are on display, the book has the feel of something they dashed off in their spare time...