Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puleston, who was 47 last week, has always sketched birds in his spare time -whether commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to a bank in London or hunting buried treasure off Hispaniola, or being initiated into a Samoan clan, or traveling "hard" class across Russia, or training troops to land on Omaha Beach...
...money? When the Finance Minister okayed the proposal, Rivera was the first to barter a $3,600 painting for his tax bill. But anti-Communist Rufino Tamayo, whose work is selling like hot cakes, said haughtily: "I prefer to pay my taxes in cash. I have no paintings to spare...
...quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint. But his work outside the office was another matter. Braden, a veteran newsman and former labor reporter for the Courier-Journal's afternoon sister, the Times, devoted most of his spare time to Communist causes. He gathered signatures for the phony Communist Stockholm "Peace Petition," helped direct strikes for the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, wrote stories that ran in the Communist Daily Worker...
Died. Frederick C. Miller, 48, president of the Miller Brewing Co. (Miller High Life), director of the Milwaukee Braves and the Green Bay Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual...
With his fox terrier Sweikof, Grutzius camped out in a circus wagon, sleeping on the floor (for all the furniture had been sold), scrounging food from local citizens who themselves were too poor to spare much. In the winter, the dwarf kept warm by getting drunk on harsh red wine, some of which he shared with Sweikof, and by burning dried grapevines in his stove...