Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad consists of six men and a spare. Captain Bill Wasserman, Captain-elect Jim Weaver, John Hart, Skid Land, Gordon Abbott, and Jerry Porter will make up the starting team, with John Houser as the extra...
...instructor in a survey course in modern American and English literature . . . I commend you for having done an immense service to literary pedagogy. Emphasizing instead of his eccentricities the many ways in which the foremost poet of our day is an ordinary, enterprising citizen may spare us some of the looks of derision which we sometimes get when we insist, often too stridently, that poetry . . . can tell us something about the world in which we live that is not inimical to gaining success in business...
Rainmaker at Work. The great cloud-milking experiment was born last month when Mayor William O'Dwyer remembered how Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irving Langmuir had caused 320 billion gallons of rain (enough to fill New York's reservoirs with 60 billion gallons to spare) to fall on arid New Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained...
Graceful Yielding. The ladies went out in the streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian government, the United Nations inquired, in effect, when the Haitians were going to get around to letting their women vote as full citizens...
...Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...