Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Missionary Torrey got to Korea three years ago he knew all the problems of an "R.A.E." (right, above elbow) case. He had studied the latest techniques at New York City's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, and he arrived in Korea with three spare arms for himself, plus 60 second-hand legs and the makings-joints, screws, webbing, leather strapping, billets of English willow -for 80 more. He was also ready to set up a limb-manufacturing plant in Korea...
Perhaps the classic case of examination confusion resulted from an hour exam in a Social Relations course one year. A student not enrolled in the course decided to pass some spare time by taking the test, even though he knew nothing about "inter-personal" relations except the jargon. A grader obligingly corrected the blue-book and returned it with a C-plus and the comment: "Good ideas--somewhat undeveloped...
...difficulties: in exchange for some of Burma's piled-up rice surplus, he would collect enough military hardware to equip a brigade-not from the suspect West, but from his acceptably socialist visitor, Marshal Tito. Left unsaid was the fact that Tito would have guns to spare only because he himself is being handsomely armed by Britain...
...Windmill's ladies, plump, brown-eyed Sheila Van Damm is a well-dressed exception. As the manager's daughter and part-time assistant, she is fully clothed during working hours, and even off duty she rarely stands still. Europe's champion woman motorist, Sheila spends every spare minute zipping across the countryside at the wheel of her sports...
...Youth. Pianist Gulda is a young man as sure of himself off the concert stage as on it. Says he of his work as a spare-time composer: "I am a very severe critic, and once I let a piece pass out of my factory, it is good." Shrugging off the fact that he now wears glasses: "Musicians have no expression in their eyes anyway." On piano music: "Beethoven suits me best because I thoroughly understand it. I find Mozart difficult, and dangerous. I play Prokofiev because people expect me to-I do not consider it important." On teaching...