Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight off the Nazis, dislikes being told now by NATO partner Greece that its rule on Cyprus is like Dachau and Auschwitz. Even some responsible Greeks, apparently including Premier Karamanlis himself, were fearful that their propagandists were going too far. But Greece was in the midst...
Princeton lost its captain and high scorer in last night's game, but the Tigers still won with plenty to spare, trouncing the varsity basketball team, 68 to 55, in the Blockhouse...
...Crimson freshmen, behind by seven points, 35 to 28, going into the final two events, captured both of them to win their meet with just seven points to spare...
...opposition-notably from DeLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, reform mayor of New Orleans, and Francis Grevemberg, the racket-busting state police superintendent. But Earl's opponents decided to campaign mostly by TV, and this gave Earl an opening. Although he had suffered a heart attack in 1950, Earl did not spare himself. Month after month he ranged the state, six to eight speeches a day, spit and scratch, handing out free hams and groceries, bringing on the hillbilly boys, whooping it up in the backwoods to break the monotony of rural life. There are 64 parishes (counties) in Louisiana, and Earl...
...ICBM will be comparatively cheap. After the enormous development costs are paid, each missile will cost, not counting the warhead, about $1,000,000. (A B-52 bomber costs $8,000,000.) It will need few spare parts. It will not have to be flown to keep the crew in practice, thus eliminating "attrition" (crackups). Its launching site will be very cheap compared with the cost of a modern bomber base. Missiles can be dispersed widely, a few or one to each launching site. They can be hidden to a considerable extent, they are potentially mobile, they...