Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappearance of their main scapegoat, under indictment for "crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got away. At week's end, Gainza Paz turned up safe at his mother's estate, 150 miles west of Montevideo...
Television's ubiquitous Milton Berle announced that after two years of spare-time writing he had finished a novel. "I'd read Sinclair Lewis and that fellow Ernest Hemingway," said Berle, modestly, "and I got to thinking. For a first novel, I think it's all right...
...faculty and student body had had enough. Ex-Treasurer Eddy sat down and drafted a letter demanding President Walter's resignation-"to spare the college . . . the necessity of our washing still more of your dirty linen in public." At that, the whole campus picked up the cry. By week's end, President Walter had received indignant letters signed by 106 students telling him to go. "We are not requesting," said the letters. "We are hereby demanding...
...never remember much about what he reads; he is too busy covering slips of paper with odd words that catch his eye. Over the past 25 years, he has jotted down 50,000 of them and filed them away for future reference. This week U.S. readers with $50 to spare will have a chance to judge the result: Lexicographer Mathews' two-volume Dictionary of Americanisms, the first dictionary of words coined by Americans...
...fortune hunters sadly departed when they learned that Cripple Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...