Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frobisher Bay, three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts for DEW line bases, airfields and weather stations, while skippers checked anxiously for the latest ice reports from the straits to the north...
...they might set up their notorious People's Courts to try recalcitrant landlords and monks. ("If those who are most hated by the people and whose lives are demanded by them admit their mistakes and decide to turn over a new leaf, we may persuade the masses to spare them...
...proper Bostonians were properly appalled at the way Amherst was snapping up scholarship students and leaving Harvard far behind. Good Harvardmen quickly raised an $11,350 fund of their own; soon it was known as the Lowell Trust, after the Lowell family treasurers, who began running it in their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent...
...many foreign prelates, diplomats and newsmen, who have long protested that it is almost impossible to get the ponderous, antique machinery of the Vatican to grind after lunch. Together, the wage boost and hour stretchout will probably cut down on the Vatican tradition of "moonlighting," i.e., taking on extra spare-time jobs...
...book has enlarged the fantasy life of Americans more dramatically this season than an ex-telephone company engineer's do-it-yourself account of How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate-in My Spare Time. More than 100,000 readers have broken open this fortune cookie, and it is currently being snapped up at the rate of 10,000 copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of down-to-earth...