Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Avenue. The Stuyvesant Casino at 9th Street and the Central Plaza at 6th gather such artists as Max Kaminsky, Red Allen, Sid Catlett, Buster Bailey, Bud Freeman, James P. Johnson, George Wettling, Joe Sullivan, and whoever else of note is in New York and has time to spare...
...than he had been at 22. For his four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter, his wife, his mother and his two sisters, all of whom he supported, looked hopefully over his shoulder...
...exams are alleged to contain great globs of partially organized facts, and the ultimate result is that the weight of the facts, whether they are understood or not, gets a passing grade. To take advantage of this, the man who knows little or nothing and therefore has lots of spare time during the exam, embroiders his margins with a host of irrelegant facts. There then exists the outside chance that the grader will mark it like a Radcliffe paper, on the sheer weight of the facts included...
...Jensen silver, dresses by Irene, and fashions which he spotted on trips to Paris, London and New York, Escobosa boosted his carriage trade. During the war, F. & N.'s sales were 20% to 60% above its competitors-including the Seattle branch of Magnin's. In his spare time he was vice president of Seattle's art museum, helped warm up support for the local symphony, and wrote a guide book on Seattle that sold 9,000 copies...
...persuading a female SS supervisor to spare the lives of two crippled "guinea pigs," Author Buber was thrown into freezing solitary confinement for more than two months; the first week she was without light or food. But Margarete Buber survived. Siberia had made her tough...