Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson looked trim and cool in a grey tropical suit when he walked into Room 212 in the Senate Office Building last week and faced the Senate committees. For the past fortnight, he had spent every spare minute preparing his case. He read every line of the 1,050,000-word testimony of Douglas MacArthur and of the Administration's witnesses. State Department staffers had been working day & night digging out papers, preparing briefings; they even analyzed the questions of individual Senators for their attitude and special interests...
Millions of U.S. hobbyists like to make their own movies, but none carries the hobby as far as Edgar M.(for Monsanto*) Queeny, 53, board chairman of the $221 million Monsanto Chemical Co. In his spare time as an amateur photographer, Queeny spent nine years making 100,000 hard-to-get still shots of wild duck, finally put the best into a 1946 volume called Prairie Wings. Two years ago, with the same perfectionist's zeal, he set about making sound movies of African native and animal life...
...than five years of schooling behind him. Back home in Manchuria he was a farmer, and all he wants today is to go back to the fields where he left his wife and baby daughter to tend the millet crop. He volunteered for the army in February 1950-to spare his family social disgrace in his village-but he never took to army life. He discussed his dislike of fighting with other soldiers who agreed, but he had to be careful not to talk to the wrong soldiers, i.e., dedicated members of the Communist Party. Secretly he decided that...
Though the White Sox have power and speed to spare, Richards has the problem of a shaky pitching staff. His solution: the now-famous switch maneuver against Boston, and a constant juggling, prodding and pushing of his other players. Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth & nail team, is already surefire at the gate (home attendance is up 29%). For White Sox fans, with only six first-division teams in 30 years, it's high time. Chicago's last American League pennant winner: the infamous Black...
...NKVD tried to strip his mind and spirit in more systematic ways. How close they came without actually succeeding makes up the chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's top lawyers and political men. Taut, spare, sharply observed and recorded, it is the most convincing account yet of that indigenous Soviet phenomenon, the phony confession. Beside it, even Arthur Koestler's brilliant Darkness at Noon bulges a bit at the suppositional seams...