Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east of Managua, he was met by Lawyer José Medina Cuadra, 30, leader of a group of 45 rebels. He and his troops, said Medina, were disheartened: "Our radio went dead. We were always short of food, and the peasants in these mountains do not have enough to spare." Medina was ready to give up. Rosenhouse sent a twelve-year-old boy to a nearby National Guard command post with a message on one of his calling cards: "Forty-five rebels want to surrender. They have laid down their guns. Please don't come in shooting." A Guard...
...Spare the Hops. The fact is, said the report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite...
...Slagle, 25, of Brooklyn, has been blind since his freshman year in high school. A graduate of St. John's University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven...
...Museum's building posed another question. The cases Peabody owned were exhibited in spare corners of Boylston Hall. The amazing objects which the Peabody had gathered from its exploration, purchases, and gifts could not be displayed, or, if they were shown, could barely be seen in the murk outside Boylston's lecture room. Adequate facilities were needed...
...speaker's stand at the great Exposition Hall at Omaha strode a spare, erect man with snapping blue eyes and firm jaw, his quick step springing to the band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences...