Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instead of 7 a.m. in order to get in an extra hour of prayer. On one occasion a friend phoned him in the middle of the night seeking a priest who could hear the confession of an anguished wayward Catholic. Bernardin turned up, but was introduced as "Father" to spare the penitent any embarrassment...
...eligible, each contestant and boat had to complete a 1,000-mile solo voyage, a requirement that posed no problem to Frenchman Philippe Jeantot, who has already logged 25,000 solo miles. The weeks before the start were spent stocking provisions and spare parts, checking out radios (each sailor will be required to report his position weekly), and adjusting the self-steering gear that will allow captains a few hours' sleep...
Such perceptions spare readers the task of puzzling them out. They short-circuit thought, plugging directly into prefabricated images. And they are by no means limited to young characters. The narrator of The Body, Gordon Lachance, shares King's age, 34, and occupation: he is a "bestselling novelist who is more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine...
...self-propelled howitzers, provide 90% of the Israeli army's powerful punch. Both the air force and the army rely heavily on U.S. missiles. The crunch in any cutoff of military aid would come only when Israel began to run out of spare parts. Israel buys some $500 million worth of such spares each year...
...husband who sought out a poison only after months of pleading by his despondent wife. Under Texas law, aiding a suicide is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum punishment of a $200 fine. Why did the poison have to be so undetectable? His lawyers contended that he was hoping to spare his nine-year-old son the stigma of a family suicide by making the death seem an inexplicable consequence of the stroke. Susan Chanslor took the stand to support her husband's story. "I discussed with Bill the possibility of ending my own life," she told the jury...