Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...
City Editor Gene Lowall of the Denver Post (circ. 237,061) collects crimes with the passion that other men lavish on postage stamps and Ming vases. A onetime crime reporter himself, he likes to swap stories with Denver cops, spends his spare hours reading and writing whodunits, calls his reporters "my agents." In 2½ years on the city desk, Lowall has done his best to make Publisher Palmer Hoyt's Post read like an up-to-date version of the old Police Gazette. To charges that he overplays crime, Lowall answers: "No matter how cheap a crime story...
...long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates from wrecked machines. Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing as a standard technique against Japanese ships. Once plane and personnel replacements began roll in, the Jap air forces didn't have a chance. One year after his arrival in the Pacific...
...Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something of the grotesque humor of Erskine Caldwell's early writing...
...microphones into their new positions. The only serious mishap so far in these live shows came last spring in the "Living Wonders" nature program when an annoyed rattlesnake from the Boston Museum of Natural Science took a bite at the microphone and glued it up with venom spray. A spare mike was rushed in to finish out the show...