Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were 28 and 26 respectively when they joined) and the kind of background that would prove most useful in community development. Between them they were able to teach first aid, child care, swimming, carpentry and auto mechanics at the Casa del Obrero of Manta; in their spare time they managed to organize neighborhood cleanup campaigns, fight bubonic plague and build an oven for the local school's hot lunch program...
...treating patients with transplants, doctors have been teetering on a precarious seesaw. They must use drugs enough to suppress the immune mechanism and spare the kidney, but not in such strong dosages as to let the patient die from any passing infection. The drugs used, mainly azathioprine (Imuran) and prednisone, are so highly potent that by themselves they can seriously weaken or help to kill a patient. A major factor in boosting the cure rate in the past two years, said Dr. Murray, has been a steady reduction in the dosage of azathioprine. The researchers gathered at Duke were seeking...
Friends who watched the spare figure, leave Widener in the evening worried that the work he had undertaken was too much. Before the last war he had bound his life to Justice Holmes, seeming to efface himself behind his great subject. Each sentence in his work was a glass, into which his patience had to pour the exact measure of learning and subtle reflection before he might take up the next. Sacrificed to such loving discrimination, the goal of finishing the work receded ever further. One wondered if, like Holmes, he was wearing his heart out after the unattainable...
...lottery will not guarantee that every man is as likely to come under fire as his fellow; the army sorts its recruits, often sending the brightest into special training and service behind the lines. But the lottery will spare the United States the immorality and the embarrassment of maintaining an army of part of the people...
...equaled and beaten that mark in competition this winter-and neither of those leaps will ever be noted in the record book. Last month, Bob soared 17 ft. 2 in.; two weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good 6 in. to spare. Both jumps were nullified by Section 20(e) of A.A.U. Track and Field Rule No. 42, which specifies that a vault "shall be a failure if a competitor clears the bar, but having relinquished his hold on the pole, the latter passes underneath...