Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receives her Ministers, and woe be to him who does not know his subject well. The Queen has been so long at her job that she can ask the most difficult questions; when a Minister cannot answer them he is told to study up and sent home. In what spare time Her Majesty permits herself she paints landscapes and cows...
Then the curtain went up, and the audience broke into a roar while for three minutes Potter sprawled on a porch and leaned against a pillar, mumbling any spare cusswords he remembered to cover up any regulation dialogue he forgot. After that, Barton took over the part...
Last week U. S. powermen were frantically looking for plants with spare capacity to help out others whose capacities had already been overtaxed. They had already begun to give impressive orders for new equipment : $70,000,000 ordered since the war began. They were drafting specifications for perhaps as much as another $100,000,000, to be ordered before the end of the year...
...about Herr Hitler's and his own desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so much of his time. . . . He could scarcely have afforded at such a moment to spare time in conversation if it did not mean that everything down to the last detail was now ready for action...
...haven't any mothers with an extra son to spare...