Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPOCK calls his lifework "preventive psychiatry." His book on baby care was conceived as a phase of that work and, like half a dozen other projects, was carried out in his spare time. He started it during a summer vacation and worked on it practically every night for two years, from nine until after midnight, dictating to his wife to give it an easy, conversational tone. He finished it after joining the Navy in 1944 as a psychiatrist in charge of severe disciplinary cases. When he got his overseas orders, the book had still to be indexed. The publishers urged...
Outside of his pulpit, Bachelor Macartney spends most of his spare time in writing and historical research. A specialist on the Civil War, he has walked over almost every battlefield from Manassas to Shiloh. A good many of his 46 published books are written about historical subjects (e.g., a life of McClellan, several studies of Lincoln); the rest are sermons and devotional works...
...North Korean power plants, smashed up in the sensational raids of late June. Photo reconnaissance of the June attacks showed that all the generator houses at three power sites had received direct hits, presumably smashing most of the Japanese-built generators beyond repair (even if the Reds had the spare parts). Air intelligence officers believed that hundreds of small North Korean factories (making small arms, small-caliber ammo, grenades, bayonets, uniforms, canteens, shoes) and ordnance shops (repairing trucks, tanks, artillery and locomotives) had been shut down, and that the enemy's radar net had been forced to switch...
Next day, at the final Olympic track & field trials, Whitfield again showed speed to spare as he breezed home first in the 400-meter race in 0:46.9. After two days of heated competition in 18 events, 13 new meet records were set and four American records broken. Paced by Double-Winner Whitfield, the U.S. track & field team seemed the best ever. Others likely to succeed at Helsinki this month...
...Noel Luna, an earnest young (25) farmer, dropped into the small Presbyterian church at Frias, in the hills of central Colombia, one day last month to do a little repair work. He was an elder of the church, and accustomed to giving some of his spare time to its upkeep...