Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's economy is now almost wholly geared to Russia. Under a new trade agreement, the Finns will continue to deliver goods to Russia. In exchange, they will get whatever goods (wheat, fodder, gasoline, oil, fertilizers) the Russians see fit to spare them...
...spare time, Harrison tried to fill out his education. At the parish house of Calvary Episcopal Church, where he roomed for awhile, the curates kept a dictionary beside them at mealtime. Whenever a word was in question, they would look it up. "I got an education by absorption there," he says. On his days off, he walked around New York studying such wonders as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and the Woolworth Building. While still working for McKim, Mead & White, he got himself enrolled in the atelier of a top architect, Harvey Wiley Corbett, where in the evenings he drew, drew...
...British case wouldn't stand up in U.S. courts." Most U.S. oilmen found such a proposition hard to believe. Jones is too shrewd an operator to take on Great Britain, the U.S. State Department and Anglo-Iranian all at once. Furthermore, Cities Service does not have the spare tankers or refineries, now working at capacity, to handle an extra 100,000 bbls...
Between lovers' quarrels and reconciliations, Peck shoots a charging rhinoceros,' fights lukewarmly on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, writes a succession of bestselling novels, and spends his spare time feeling desperately sorry for himself...
...Britain. The first and best half of Author De Hartog's new novel is set in these troubled waters. His hero is the skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot at the tugboats...