Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as the case of a second couple was going to trial last October, Prosecutor Morris, who had been alternately praised for her persistence and berated as overzealous, suddenly announced that the county was dropping all charges against the remaining 19 defendants. The reason: to spare the children further trauma and safeguard the investigation of the alleged homicides committed by members of the sex ring...
...problem "even in the best of times," but suggested that many are that way "by choice." The Administration has tried to combat the problem with minimal appropriations by creating a Task Force on the Homeless, a kind of Government baglady that casts about the federal agencies looking for spare clothes, tents or unused Government buildings. In addition, Congress has appropriated $210 million during the past three years to be dispensed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally handles crises like the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The money, funneled to local governments and charities such as the United...
Still, history through hindsight is a mug's game, and Buckley never forgets his plot or pace. If Blackford Oakes had a bit more wattage--his creator could spare some--he might be worth an additional sequel or two. As for Castro, one suspects that he is so plausible because Buckley shares many of his attributes --among them an affection for crowds. The author dedicates this book to 49 nephews and nieces and acknowledges help from 22 individuals. One of them, he says, "couldn't stand the book's title, and I think the world should know how heavily...
After years of neglect and ignominy, including having their movements cannibalized for spare parts and their cases melted down, old wristwatches, particularly models made from the early 1920s through the '40s, have come into their own. Auction houses are getting "record prices" for vintage Rolexes and collectible Cartiers, according to Daryn Schnipper, a watch expert at Sotheby Parke Bernet. Sotheby's had four major auctions in New York in 1984 that prominently featured wristwatches; another, just last week, established several new highs including a record for a 1935 Cartier Tank...
This is violence of a special kind, not "brother, can you spare a dime" stuff but anarchic, pointless, Clockwork Orange violence. It is particularly reviled because it is perfectly senseless. We tend to call serial murders senseless, but we know that buried deep inside a Wayne Williams lies a horrible, though perhaps unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage...