Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesian army ranks among the world's finest fighting units. But it is hamstrung by a lack of supplies and spare parts, and, above all, by the hostility or indifference of black villagers, whose hearts and minds are the key to military success in a guerrilla war. Unless the political climate changes, the best the army can do is keep up the present level of containment. Eliminating terrorism-the basic goal of Smith's regime-will be beyond...
...spoke, the Secretary of State would merely add his bit to the usual commencement pieties. No ballyhoo had preceded him; no Washington flacks had scurried about alerting the press that a "major" statement would be forthcoming. In fact, say some who were there, neither Marshall's typically spare language nor his earnest but dry delivery awakened that gathering fully to a realization that here history was being made...
Stanley's five Johns Hopkins protégés seem almost too dedicated to their calling. Spare-time reading tends toward math and science books, with a little science fiction thrown in for leavening. Favorite hobbies include, not surprisingly, chess and bridge. Stark and Camerer, however, seem drawn to nonscientific pastimes-Stark to softball and ragtime music on the trombone. Camerer to journalism. He has been writing stories about fashions and fishing for the Beachcomber, a free weekly published in Ocean City...
...Communist ally. The rebuff on the Phantoms was particularly galling since Congress last month approved the sale of 18 F-4s to Greece-on credit terms. Meanwhile, the embargo reduced the effectiveness of the Turkish air force by 50%; planes earmarked for NATO service were grounded for lack of spare parts...
...Dickens era is well begun with this production of Hard Times, which is as spare as The Pallisers is lush. Whether PBS intended it or not, the two series are ideal companions. Trollope wrote of power struggles in Parliament and of intrigue under the topiary at the country house of the Duke of Omnium. In Hard Times Dickens explained what life was like for those who could only peer through the gates-and how much misery it cost to maintain those ducal shrubs in such well-shaved elegance...