Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also head of the Is Bankasi (Business Bank), which finances much of Turkish business. The Turkish economy has been deep in trouble because too many businesses expanded beyond their capital resources. Some new factories ran out of capital before completion. Many businesses cannot get foreign exchange to buy spare parts or raw materials...
...Hotel has achieved a master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs with the slogan: "When in Rome, do as Americans do." In Spain, Europe's last stronghold of the "matrimonial" double bed, hotelkeepers are finally switching to the twin beds preferred by U.S. tourists. In Germany, where the mattresses are divided into three parts, innkeepers are turning reluctantly...
...such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare not their women and children, for they spare not yours." In recent months, following some 40 protests by France, Nasser has toned down the broadcasts to French North Africa. But now Nasser wanted to know: Why is France sending jets to Israel? Nasser assured Pineau: "No commando destined for Algeria...
...built Bizmac, now being installed in Detroit by the Army Ordnance Tank-Automotive Command to keep track of tank and auto parts all over the world. Operators who sit at Bizmac's console can store away on magnetic tape records of 155,000 types of spare parts, lists of vehicles that use them, detailed inventories in major depots from Japan to West Germany. If, for example, the Army needs to check world supplies of tank crankshafts, Bizmac will compile records no more than 48 hours old, bring forth the reply in three minutes, feed it out at a speed...
...mocked and pitied heroes of Powers' short stories are usually worldly U.S. Roman Catholic priests who have mislaid their sense of vocation in the hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever...