Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucks and vans available to distribute supplies are in disrepair, and spare parts are scarce. There are only about 6,000 trucks in the entire country, and only a few hundred have been diverted from military...
...first case to go to trial ended in an acquittal last month. Just as a second trial was getting under way last week, all of the cases were dropped. Reason: to spare the children further trauma and to prevent the release of information involving a related investigation "of great magnitude." The FBI and the state attorney general's office have now entered the case in the wake of claims by some of the children that boys brought in from elsewhere to participate in sex parties and pornography sessions had been murdered. Said John Erskine, chief of Minnesota...
From such exchanges, two very different characters emerge. Churchill, already 64 when the war began, seems considerably more emotional, more stubborn, more immersed in his nation's struggle ("The worth of every destroyer that you can spare to us is measured in rubies"). And sometimes, as when the British stand virtually alone after the fall of France, he can sound frankly desperate ("Mr. President, I cannot cut the food consumption here below its present level"). Roosevelt, seven years younger, is more ebullient, conscious of his greater economic and military power, yet surprisingly wary about domestic opponents in Congress markably...
...knows the territory, from temporary exhilaration to piercing despair, and who is fully aware that yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. Richard Yates is usually considered a master of the realistic voice: spare and shrewd, cutting and chilling. But for all the leanness of his writing, his language can carry considerable weight. Without apparent effort it eases past the conventions of simple realism toward deadpan comedy and social panorama. Young Hearts Crying could stand as a definitive portrait of a man and woman, maturing...
...sleaze factor is immediately evident, so is the metaphysics. Quentin is, after all, having a confessional chat with God as the play begins. John Lee Beatty's set is furnished with the spare elegance of a waiting room in limbo; the back wall suggests an opaque view of the hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues...