Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron von Fab-Fein, "because of the political problems there. The Communist opposition has been sentenced to ten years in jail. How ridiculous can you get-putting politicians in jail...
...father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep the family alive and intact while he grabbed spare moments to paint-first copying calendars, then endlessly sketching his sister Yoshiko. When Mabe married eight years ago, his father-in-law forced him to sign a contract to paint no more ("a foolish extravagance...
...known to hundreds of scholarship students as the unfailingly cheerful, helpful, and efficient person who greeted them in Weld 29, set up their papers, and straightened things out with the Bursar and other authorities. She had fun in her and energy, to spare, and was generous in her affection and concern for all who came her way. Her devotion to Harvard and Harvard students was warm and constant...
...Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor: the independent pursuit of "fineness of mind." All are reading "P.P.E." (philosophy-politics-economics), a stiff course enthusiastically approved by the U.S. military. "This is an ideal opportunity," says Pete Dawkins. "At West...
...Illinois for the dedication of the University of Chicago's new $4,100,000 law center, Nixon urged, as he had before, that the rule of law be brought more decisively into international affairs; bypassing the opportunity to talk politics with Illinois Republicans, Nixon spent nearly all his spare time in his hotel room, working on a carefully nonpartisan speech, which he delivered at midweek at the CENTO conference in Washington (see FOREIGN NEWS...