Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eerily satirical political fantasy, the camera wanders like a Gulliver in an imaginary kingdom, and finds in what never happened a metaphor of what all too often does. Written, produced and directed by two little-known British moviemakers, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, It Happened Here was shot with spare cash ($20,000) in spare time over a period of seven years. Then it was withheld from the public for still another year by distributors who were afraid that some anti-Semitic dialogue, ad-libbed by real-life British fascists, might peeve the public. The dialogue was cut before release...
Only the Carronade was equipped with a fire-control computer, and it was soon beyond repair, owing to a lack of spare parts. Lieut. Commander Roy E. McCoy, 38, who runs the division from his Empire desk aboard the Carronade, quickly jury-rigged an alternative system, known as the "bow and arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make...
...prisoners before hostile street mobs, by refusing to allow Red Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less grisly than the possibility of their execution was the prospect that Hanoi's leaders may "spare" their American prisoners-only to sentence them to forced labor in installations likely to come under U.S. bombing attack-even though the convention specifies that prisoners can be put to work only on projects with "no military character or purpose...
Within 23 days of Feddersen's arrival, he had shaken loose 2,600 lbs. of spare parts for failing trucks and bulldozers, procured vitally needed aluminum sections for the airstrip's 8,000-ft. jet runway, and made MCB 10 the only outfit on the base with a perpetual supply of beer, steaks, lettuce, tomatoes and lumber. In the past two weeks alone, Feddersen has turned up a truck engine, two electronic workbenches, 15 file cabinets, 35 electric fans, 1,000 lbs. of small automotive parts and 42 hickory-handled carnival mallets. "You're dead...
...amateur circuit every year with Husband George, can be counted on to spur on her little darlings. "I guess we've never had a real vacation," she says. "Everywhere we go there is tennis, a tournament or something." On the tour, Nancy and Cliff spend all their spare time together, hew to strict training rules: up at 9 a.m., in bed by 11 p.m. Nancy has not had a date in eight months, and Cliff has abstained since January-but neither seems to miss the social swirl. "People tell us that tennis isn't everything," explains Cliff...