Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another line is Bob Di Blasio, Joe Kittredge; and Doug Anderson, and a third is Carl Timpson, Hal Marshall, and Shorty Minot. Dusty Burke and Bob Bliss form the first defense, and if Jack Carman plays at all, it will not be as forward but as a spare defeneseman...
Bertha Palmer died in 1918. For years, 1350 has been empty, grimily grotesque alongside Lake Shore's spare apartment buildings. The Millets and Corots were sent to the Art Institute, the furnishings sold. Last week bulldozers snorted across the bedraggled lawns, rooting out the old elms. The house was next: an apartment building would rise in its place...
...spare time Waugh made souvenir boxes of sea shells, a whalebone chandelier, a papier-maché castle for his children-and abstract paintings. He never exhibited the abstractions, for fear of shocking his devoted customers...
...Williams has also respected his literary bent: he has written more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction and history, all in his "spare" time. His fellow doctors ''used to think I was a little cracked, but they've learned to tolerate me." He admits that his patients often have trouble when they try to read Poet Williams. Says a patient in one scrap of Williams' poems: "Geeze, Doc, I guess it's all right but what the hell does it mean...
...long day's work he slept under the counter of one of his stores, too worn-out to go home. When his mother, the sole inspiration for his Spartan drive toward big money, died in 1889, he buried himself still more deeply in his work, spent his spare time shopping around for new products to stock. He settled...