Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar-scarred veteran of five marriages, is a continual stream of letters from ladies proposing to be his sixth missus. Among his other complaints: "People keep writing me for money. They don't realize I don't have any spare cash...
...Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard, but had some points to spare..." The contest was marked by a rash of injuries, mostly to Harvard men. Indignation was widespread for a long time afterwards...
...flight delays and layovers in faraway cities, some pilots spend about half of each month at home. The man who puts it to good use can make an income stretching in the heavy five figures or build an entirely new career. Says one who does: "Some pilots use their spare time to become expert fishermen. Some become low-handicap golfers. I devote my off-duty hours to making money, of which I happen to be very fond...
...basement of the art center is "The Caf," a lounge-cafeteria where girls congregate in their spare time. Usually one can see there a Princeton, Yale, or Columbia student who has driven to Sarah Lawrence to spend the afternoon hours. While representatives from these three universities date the Sarah Lawrence girls most often, one occasionally sees some pig-tailed coed sporting a Harvard sweatshirt...
...shoots back, wadded into spitballs, most of the unfavorable reviews he has received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used...