Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most urgent problem facing China's Reds is industrialization, for which they need machines and technical skill. Russia will be willing to provide these, whether it can spare them or not, and if the United States cuts off all communication with China, Mao will become completely dependent on, and subservient to Moscow...
...bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
...basement room of a Third Avenue gallery last week hung the second Manhattan exhibition of contemporary Haitian art. Done by houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...
After 2½ years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus (where he spent his spare time studying law), Yankey decided he could do better, asked for a second jury trial on a technicality: since he had been sentenced without a jury conviction, he was entitled to be sentenced by a three-judge panel. He won a new trial. Last week, the same crime brought 41-year-old Cecil Yankey a second verdict. Said a Highland County murder jury: "Guilty" -with no recommendation of mercy...
...Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals if God would spare the village from a plague...