Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stripped the plain-Jane body off Ford's dowdy Falcon and replaced it with a long-hood, short-rear-deck configuration called the Mustang that in 1964 set a record for automobile sales by a first-year model (418,000). Four years later he reached into Ford's spare-parts bin again and launched the limousine-like Continental Mark III on a Thunderbird chassis...
...versions of the homemade costumes mom used to fashion for the kingergarten pageant. Notable exceptions, however, are the strangely abstract and witty outfits created for the Sun and the North Wind. In contrast to the generally amsicurish look of the costumes, Len Schnabel's set and lighting design is spare, elegant and very effective...
There may be an "our song" for a cause (We Shall Overcome), for a college ("Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow, Eli Yale!"), for a specific event, like the release of the hostages (Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree), and even for an era (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?). Nations have them. But The Star-Spangled Banner has never quite become "our song" in the way that the Marseillaise utterly and unquestionably belongs to the French. Politicians have their "our songs." John Kennedy may have thought of his Administration in terms of the words and music...
...have to get him into game situations before you can expect to throw him into the playoffs." Cleary noted Olson, who said the ankle still felt somewhat still, will dress as a spare for the varsity's Sunday afternoon regular-season finale at Princeton...
...Iran made significant gains on the battlefield last spring and drove the Iraqis from much of their captured territory, Tehran does not seem able to win the war either. The Iranians are fighting with a hodgepodge of equipment bought from many nations and are suffering from a lack of spare parts. Deep divisions are said to exist between the regular military and the poorly trained but highly indoctrinated Islamic Guards. Troop morale is waning, and some expatriates say absenteeism and desertions are rife. Said a U.S. analyst in Saudi Arabia last week: "The gulf war has become a terrible replay...