Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 63, Waco (Texas) bachelor who managed his family's real-estate fortune, courted "a string of widows," in his spare time turned out (1952) the lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...
...taken up our pen with the intention of addressing some timely remarks to the Sophomores on the propriety of their spending their spare hours in writing for the CRIMSON, instead of wasting their time over baseball, rowing, etc., which, by the way, are all very well, as far as they furnish subjects for us to write on. But it has occurred to us that there was an able editorial on this subject in the CRIMSON for September 30, 1875, to which we refer members of the Sophomore class. --FROM THE CRIMSON OF OCTOBER...
Inches to Spare. At the outset there was a certain amount of tension on the bridge. Shiaty is an oldtimer with 27 years at sea and 10 on the canal, one of three Egyptian pilots who reached first-class rating (none held master's rating) under the old company, and one of seven available pilots (four top-class Greeks also stayed on) qualified to handle big ships under the old company standards...
...made the name of Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from a young plum tree. "Oh God!" cried the emperor, his heart broken, when they brought her body to him. "Will this bring peace to my people...
Author Yamata (Lady of Beauty) is quick to admit that some geishas are merely beautiful dumb brunettes. But the trio whose authentic life stories she tells in her spare, grave and yet oddly debonair book, were bright, courageous women possessed of enough tragic dignity to become enshrined in Japan's human legend...