Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks of second-rate Eastern crews. In that race the Bruins showed themselves to be sprinters, surprising Yale by coming on strong in the last 500 meters, Saturday, however, Brown couldn't move on the Crimson in the rough water and Harvard won with open water to spare...
...with an eye to popular opinion, hash out over a period of many days the definitive list of winners. But a call to the Academy shatters such illusions. The Academy is made up of approximately 4200 "professional motion picture craftsmen and artists" who view the pictures in their spare time and submit nominations in their field. Actors nominate actors, directors nominate directors and cinematographers nominate cinematographers. But everyone votes on all the nominations in the last balloting and chooses his or her personal favorite...
After picking up the game in seventh grade, Finn quickly matured into one of the top players in Philadelphia--the nation's premier lacrosse breeding ground. She led her high school squad to three straight league championships. In her spare time, she managed to captain the school's field hockey and basketball teams to a few titles as well...
...SPARE TIME: last week, when he wasn't laying waste to the American environment, our Secretary of the Interior tried his hand at a new activity and went out for a little anesthetic strip mining...
...always, Appelfeld's style is affectingly spare. His fictional victim is a little East European girl, born to be despised. Ugly and slow to learn, Tzili is neglected and abused by her large, impoverished Jewish family. In infancy she is left alone to play in the dirt outdoors. In childhood she becomes the butt of her Christian schoolmates. As the Nazis approach, Tzili is abandoned by her parents. She seeks shelter among the peasants in the district, claiming to be the daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated...