Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitler. "A religious figure . . . Already Arabs and Moroccans are mingling my name with their prayers. Amongst the Tartars I shall become Khan. The only thing of which I shall be incapable is to share the sheiks' mutton with them. I'm a vegetarian, and they must spare...
...middle of an already slippery S curve. The five cars following piled up and littered the road like tank barriers. Next came Nuvolari. In a few seconds, at high speed, he power-slid and threaded his way across the slick and between the crashed cars with only millimeters to spare, without touching...
...Going to Fight It." It was to spare her that Taft had so closely guarded the secret of his condition from the press, and from all but his sons and his most intimate friends. Martha was in precarious health, paralyzed by a stroke three years ago. The knowledge of his condition had come as sudden and shocking news to him. He had had himself checked carefully before his 1952 presidential campaign, and had been given a clean bill of health. Last spring he went to his doctor with the exasperating pain in his hip, which he had tried to alleviate...
...more retired briefly from the theater. Her husband had bought a Bucks County farm stocked with Holsteins and Guernseys. While he managed the 64 acres, ,she happily rearranged furniture in the farmhouse. It was a serene time. Baker was a shy, modest fellow, who painted and wrote in his spare time. When he suffered a heart attack, they reluctantly left the farm...
...State Department's Near Eastern Affairs Division, had a family and the realization that he could not maintain the scale of living that would be required of him in any more exalted diplomatic job. In 1926, after getting a law degree from George Washington University in his scarce spare time, he went back to New York to join brother John Foster in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. For the next 15 years he made money as a Wall Street lawyer...