Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Younger singers could take pointers from the confident way she wrapped her voice around such oldies as Get Happy, Embraceable You and I've Got You Under My Skin. Not only could she get around a nightclub floor without a trace of a limp, she was spending her spare time on the golf course, trying to regain her low-80s game...
...been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott was responsible for 367 patients (with 61 attendants, but no nurses, no case workers). He could spare Mrs. X only half an hour a week. This would be considered hopelessly inadequate by most psychiatrists, but it proved enough...
...event were in keeping with its size. Thirty days ago, a 25-man team of Pan Am lawyers and accountants left for Europe to begin the job of totting up A.O.A.'s assets, preparing receipts in 14 languages for A.O.A. bank accounts, runway permits, some 35,000 spare parts. Pilots of A.O.A. planes were issued 6-by 12-inch signs reading: "This aircraft is the property of, and operated by, Pan American World Airways." The signs were to be hung in passenger compartments the instant the merger took place...
...glance at the above illustration will help show why Lunden has little spare time. He must keep track of seven sets of tickets for the 57,000 seat Soldiers Field Stadium, and see that the proper tickets are sold at the proper time to the proper persons...
...Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded as a minor American classic...