Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple have sent letters to the Cambridge Chronicle and Sun and the Boston Herald, as well as the CRIMSON, hoping that "some Harvard professor or Cambridge resident with a little land to spare will take notice of their plight...
...long as we depend for our intellectual development on quickly trained specialists ... we shall have to depend for the thoughtfulness and understanding which make society and democracy possible on those who have barely enough intellectual background to carry on their controlled, supervised routine work, and have nothing left to spare for their duties as citizens...
...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...
...through Bartok to U.S. Composer Henry Cowell's gay, melodic Music for Orchestra 1957, specially composed for the tour. The traveling orchestra had its casualties, but only one musician missed a plane, and he was delivered (to Athens) on a cargo plane in time to make the concert. Spare reeds and strings were plentiful; even the tympani player got around his problem of extremes of humidity by putting the drumheads under a hair drier when they loosened in damp climates and covering them with wet diapers when they got too tight in dry climates...
...kept the two survivors zooming and pivoting. From its emergency chores in the infield, Camera Two groped repeatedly for urgent outfield closeups; its monitor sometimes became a quivering mound of mixed Jell-o before trembling to a halt on an outfielder poised for a catch, without a second to spare before Coyle threw the picture on the air. But through the whole afternoon, only a single catch eluded the 24 men who toiled to take the Series to the nation. "That's not too bad," said one, "when you consider that the same thing happened to Mickey Mantle today...