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Word: sparingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Reefs. In August of 1950, Major Hayter weighed anchor at Lymington and beat his way by easy stages eastward across the Mediterranean, past Suez and down to Aden. He was in no hurry, and he was happy to pick up some spare change by ferrying Moslems across the Red Sea. In India he spent six months working ashore and saving money. Then he sailed on, past Singapore and Surabaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Long Voyage Home | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...third of his time traveling. Wherever he goes, he takes his two Contax cameras and keeps them clicking. Boston-born Bill Honneus has a mission with his cam eras, and he goes about it with the zeal of a Johnny Appleseed. In each country he visits, he devotes every spare moment to a photographic report of little-known cultural aspects of the land, plus pictures of any new ideas in advertising, merchandising or manufacturing. Among his business friends around the world he always finds interested audiences for these spontaneous reports. With them, Bill feels he is sowing seeds not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April), it turned out flat, ineffective and not really what Ike wanted to say. He wanted to speak his own mind in a way that was beyond both calculated diplomacy and the question-and-answer limitations of his press conferences. In spare moments he began drafting a new speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Lift Up Your Eyes | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Fire. Once inside, however, there were 52 more steps to be negotiated. To spare the old man's pride and health together, the city fathers of Aachen had herded the 300 invited guests into the auditorium ahead of Sir Winston, then, discreetly sealing'the staircase from prying eyes, had the great guest carried up by four city firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill the Provocative | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...human moral that Sidney Howard, in They Knew What They Wanted, neatly packed into one room has been wildly scattered and in places quite submerged all over the Napa Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing. All this might just get by were the parties more festive; but despite plenty of good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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