Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned them they were breaking up my home by giving my wife that check for $90 every month." But the welfare office stood fast, told John Clark: "It is hard to get on the relief rolls and just as hard to get off." The family arguments about all that spare money finally got so bad that John and Esther Clark were divorced...
Levi, who formerly covered U.N. sessions at Lake Success, will spend a month with U.N. troops in Korea, a month in Japan and a third month touring southeast Asia. He is mailing his copy home because Borba can't spare dollars for cables...
...mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...
...Lagerkvist was brought up to devout Lutheranism. Grown, he turned agnostic. But his best novel, Barabbas, now published in the U.S., sounds as though Author Lagerkvist has never lost a deep preoccupation with, faith. Barabbas is a spare, subtle story about the struggle of a brutish man to understand the meaning of Christianity...
Independent Income. In Kansas City, Dennis Hudson, 39, explained why he had stolen a car: he intended to sell its spare tire, because "I wanted to pay my own way in life and didn't want to ask my relatives in Denver for money...