Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Dodge was selling Dodges, he decided that he needed some exercise. He took up boxing with a vengeance, made himself a skilled pugilist. One day a spare-parts dealer cussed out Auto Salesman Dodge, whose secretary dutifully recorded in her notebook what ensued: "Mr. Dodge sought him out to question him about the statements. The dealer made a wrong move and was suddenly flat on his back." Years later, Dodge's boxing coach remarked to a teller in the Detroit Bank that the bank's president "might have made something of himself if he had stuck...
...court was critical of the few safety devices used in the boxing ring. "Professional baseball not only sanctions the use of a protective device for the head but some of the clubs require it. College and professional football spare no efforts to protect participants . . ." But he was even more critical of boxing fans. "The rules of the Boxing Commission forbid a one-sided match; [they] require a match to be stopped when a contestant is outclassed. But the spectators dictate the determination of these vital decisions . . . In the enforcement of the Boxing Commission rules, the claims of humanity and decency...
...checks shipments at a soap factory, a black-marketeering student with a nose for yen and a yen for such un-Japanese customs as holding hands and kissing. Like identical beads, these characters are threaded on the same theme another Japanese novelist, Kikou Yamata, recently used in her spare and superior novel, Lady of Beauty (TIME, Aug. 30). The theme: Japan isn't what it used to be. In traditional Japanese style. Author Osaragi frequently confuses his writing hand with the long arm of coincidence. He arranges no happy ending, but he does fashion a moving confrontation between Kyogo...
...spare time in Minneapolis, Morse got his law degree; then he went on to New York to work on his doctorate (in jurisprudence) at Columbia, under Professor Raymond Moley. His thesis, a study of the grand-jury system, is a definitive work on the subject. Moley was enormously attracted to his bright young student. Later Moley changed his mind about Morse-and, of course, vice versa...
Already available to TACair are such items as "flyaway kits"-giant parcels containing enough spare aircraft parts to maintain a squadron for a month or more...