Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left the center to return for our exam, our car ran over an enormous nail on the highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...
There is nothing new about using the fibula as a spare part. Important to four-legged animals, the bone is not essential to man, though the lower 30% helps to anchor the anklebone. As a result, surgeons have long used pieces of the fibula to patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases...
...version of the kidnaping attempt and told how Popieluszko had banged repeatedly against the trunk of the car into which he had been thrown, bound and gagged. According to Pekala, the priest briefly escaped and ran across a deserted hotel parking lot, yelling, "Help me, help me. Spare my life, you people." No one heard him, and he was quickly recaptured. Pekala testified that he felt "cheated" at having to shoulder the blame for a crime he was ordered to commit. Said Pekala: "I know now that there is no aim so high to justify the killing...
...exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made the Montagues the good guys and the Capulets the swine: for instance, at the end of the first-act ball, Lord Capulet's decision to spare the gate-crashing Romeo from Tybalt's outrage is scarcely indicated. As Juliet and her Romeo, Patricia Miller and James Canfield both lack spirit and flair, but let the music carry them along...
Though her only office was a spare bedroom and her only warehouse the closet, Kolbe wrote a catalogue and sent it to 3,500 teachers and parents. Orders began to trickle in, then to flow. The first years were hard. She bought a warehouse, and it caught fire. An employee embezzled money. She divorced her husband. "I never, never feel overwhelmed," Kolbe says, a little grimly. "I enjoy a challenge...