Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbaric force, Rashomon nonetheless softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...
...Dear Mr. Eisenhower," it read, "In the hustle & bustle of visiting the islands, we wonder if such a man as you doesn't get a little weary with the luncheons, teas and dinners? . . . If you have a spare hour or two and would like to relax, please consider our home as your own . . . We . . . would treasure the memory of your visit for a lifetime . . . We promise not to mention statehood for Hawaii, Korea, your Cabinet-or Mr. Truman. We will ask you about Mamie, your children, your grandchildren, and let you play with our six-months-old son . . . Hope...
From the rostrum spoke the dry, spare, 76-year-old Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. Ordinarily icy and unemotional, Adenauer summoned up all the passion and eloquence he could muster. "It is the fateful hour of Germany!" he cried. "We are at the crossroads of slavery and freedom . . . A vote of 'no' on these treaties means 'yes' to Stalin . . . Germany's position is more exposed than ever before in her history. Germany is divided and torn, disarmed and defenseless She is overshadowed by a colossus that is trying to enslave and swallow...
...high, forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni...
...ready. Newspapermen had a field day describing the event: "Purcell, Pound, and Torrey stayed in their workshop until four o'clock one December morning," one article read, "When they left to go home through a blinding snowstorm, they had completed their preparations...Several days passed before they had any spare time...One Saturday morning Purcell went into the shed, warmed the equipment, and waited for the others...they threw the switches. The experiment worked...