Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston Churchill was at dinner when he heard the news. He ordered the R.A.F. to speed Sir Hugh to Colombo: "Spare nothing-get a plane in the air at once!" Churchill and the British had cause to be grateful to Prime Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed for 40 days by the British, he had become by 1948 their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption...
There is another type of problem, however, whose solution depends on the University. The Department of Buildings and Grounds stores garden tools and some spare flagpoles in the Squash Courts basement, and it appears most reluctant to remove them. But the University has an obligation to the fusilers of somewhat larger proportion than this objection: first because riflry is a regular sport, and requires participants to buy twenty dollars worth of athletic participation cards per year; and second, because the University, by contract with the NROTC, is required to supply an adequate rifle range...
...desk, miserably struggling over my income-tax form when I could ill afford to spare the time from the work whence comes my income, I looked up, not at the ceiling as you suggest, but at your March 10 cover article on the U.S. taxpayer. I quickly sensed an expression of sympathy from you . . . Your commiseration is superb . . Congratulations on the masterpiece of writing that makes income-tax time something to feel almost gay about...
...when the new job of NATO secretary general was created at Lisbon (TIME, March 3). But Sir Oliver said no. The job was next offered to Canada's External Affairs Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, and then to The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker. Their governments refused to spare them...
Except for one 14th century theme, the mass was his own invention. He had composed it in his spare time, and, partly in playfulness and partly for fear he would never get it performed otherwise, had decided to give it at least a nominal touch of antiquity. He had come across a manuscript by Etienne Moulinié and liked the name-and after all, Moulinié's initials were the same as his own. After the first performance in the fall of 1950, the critics had jumped for joy, and he was stuck. Said he: "What could...