Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill was still touring, and was still good enough to come from a hospital bed to trounce a 25-year-old redhead named Donald Budge, the 1938 U.S. amateur champion. Budge called Tilden "the only genius tennis has produced." Even in his late 505, grey and spare, he was still at it, still able, for one set, to summon up flashes of a great game...
...City of London. It was lunch time, and, as he could see through the upper frames of his bifocals, Thameside was black with people. Suddenly he sent the little silver Auster hurtling out of the sun, straight for Blackfriars Bridge. Girls screamed, bowler hats ducked, but, with inches to spare, the Mad Major leveled out, missed Blackfriars, and with wheels brushing the water, skimmed upstream towards Waterloo Bridge. Between the water's surface and Waterloo's arches at low tide there is a bare 50 ft. of clearance, but the Mad Major never faltered. Like a darting kingfisher...
When Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was once asked how he spent his spare time, he looked puzzled for a moment, then blurted a characteristic answer. "Work," he said, and turned back to the job at hand. Mestrovic is a sculptor of the old school, and he goes at it with a blazing intensity; he has been known to do as many as nine major works plus a score of minor pieces in a single year. The results of such industry have been so successful that six years ago Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art honored him with the only...
...jump, or on either the Crimson's sprint or mile relay team. If Pete Curran can run, a sprint team of Twitchell, Pete Dow, Herb Collins and Curran will enter, with Rittenburg running on the mile relay team of Al Howe, Jack Richards and Roger Gratwick. Rittenburg is the spare for the sprint quartet...
...Post is airmailed to her every day, and she reads it closely and critically. The governor, who amiably accepts his role as a Cabinet member's husband, divides his time between Houston and Washington, and young Bill telephones twice a week. Jessica comes down every weekend. In the spare moments of nine days, Oveta and a decorator furnished her eight-room apartment luxuriously, with impeccable Chinese antiques, genuine Matisse paintings...