Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour Le Mans race, the No. 1 event of sports-car road racing, and the most grueling. One Cunningham Special skidded off the road and cracked up; the second was forced out with a mechanical failure; the third finished 18th. Last week, loaded down with twelve tons of spare parts (including 25 spare tires and wheels, 1,500 spark plugs) and an entourage of 20 dedicated people (drivers, mechanics, an electrician and a trained nurse), Cunningham moved into Le Mans to try again...
...necessary for TV and radio. Ike rambled on about Berlin, then saw a TV technician flashing a warning sign that he had only three minutes to go: Ike threw away part of what he had wanted to say, raced on to the finish, and then had two minutes to spare. After a press conference (most notable statement, on votes for 18-year-olds: "If a man is old enough to fight he is old enough to vote"), Ike and Mamie took off for Denver. They were welcomed by a crowd of 100,000. Ike hoped to play a little golf...
With only an hour to spare, U. S. Charge d'Afairés Allan Lightner strode in to hand
Tarn has been ambushed eleven times by Red guerrillas, and escaped with nothing more than a cut finger. In his spare time he hunts tigers by night, writes poetry by day. He is tough with opposition, but he favors a more representative Viet Nam cabinet, and grants of land to Indo-Chinese who fight against the Reds...
...from Lafayette Square where Andrew Jackson, prancing above the flower beds on his bronze horse, perpetually takes off his hat to the White eat that official Washington likes best to be seen eating lunch. There, almost every day when he's in town, promptly at 1 arrives a spare, neatly dressed individual with dark hair and eyes and the restrained impatience of manner of a man whose every moment is very, very valuable. In his 63 rd year, Walter Lippmann still looks the precocious young deep thinker of the days of the new New Republic, when, in the dawn...