Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SUZANNE, 62, is married to a French artist, Jean Crotti, still paints expressionist oils and watercolors in her spare time. Her most striking contribution to the exhibit was a lighthearted portrait of a middle-class French wedding party which she painted...
Cook has fizz to spare. As a youngster in Escanaba, Mich., he started peddling papers, helped work his way through the University of Michigan with a job in the library and with bridge winnings, and started at the bottom in SEC. He got a law degree at night school, moved up to assistant director, then spent two years in the Justice Department before he left Government service in June 1947 to enter private law practice...
...grand-slam performance in winning the 5,000-, 1,500-, and 10,000-meter races on consecutive days; and Norway, according to unofficial point scores, won the games, 125½ to the second-place U.S.'s 89½. Yet the Norwegians still had plenty of cheers to spare for the top woman performer of the games: the U.S.'s 19-year-old Andrea Mead Lawrence...
Great & Humble. In King George's island kingdom and in the far reaches of his still vast dominions, there was a feeling of individual loss in the passing of this simple, decent man whose spare, frail person had embodied such personal endurance, such symbolic might. Far beyond the limits of his Commonwealth, in lands that offer Britain no more than grudging respect, great men and humble men paused to acknowledge the death of the British King...
Last week a Paris gallery proudly displayed three mural-sized Buffets representing the Flagellation, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. Each was spare as an Egyptian frieze, ominous as a nightmare. Haggard men in black swimming trunks and bony women in black dresses posed stiffly and grimly against dirty white skies. The resurrected Christ hung desperate above his tomb, his winding sheet napping from his sides like bat wings. "I defy any man," wrote one enthusiastic critic, "not to feel moved almost to sickness before these works...