Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spare time, he worked on a musical encyclopedia which included biographies of famous (and not quite so famous) musicians throughout history. In order to ensure that competing publications did not rip off their work, my teacher and his colleagues would include one false biography to serve as a potential...
...time the men's hockey game had finished, the bus company had sent up a spare vehicle, so everyone was able to go home for the pure joy of studying for finals. For those scoring at home, Saturday marked the second straight bus mishap (the same piece of scrap metal, nonetheless) for the icemen--their bus broke down in Vermont after a game in Clarkson, and they had to wait two and a half hours until a spare vehicle was delivered...
...with most of their equipment, are gone. The former Soviet Army's strength of almost 3 million men is now down to less than 1.5 million. The defense budget has been slashed, leaving units in the field with no money for fuel, fleets rusting in port, planes grounded without spare parts...
...half and lumbered with a few more plot elements than it needs -- most notably a political feud involving the accused would-be Senator. But the author's characterizations are tough and believable, and his sentences, which tended to wander through purple patches in his first novels, now are spare and efficient. A similar spareness in plotting might have helped matters. What's clear is that after half a dozen books, Patterson is one of the best in the business...
...issues spiritual guidelines, but also to the almost mystical Poland he holds in his heart. Indeed, though the Pope's corner bedroom on the third floor of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace has a view of the baroque wonder of St. Peter's Square, it is almost as spare as a monk's. The room contains a single bed, two straight-backed upholstered chairs, a desk. There is a small carpet near the bed, but otherwise the parquet floor is bare. The walls too are unembellished except for a few souvenirs, mostly icons. But these are eloquent by their very...