Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spartan as Mir is, its science facilities are first rate, and Lucid, a biochemist, spent much of her time aloft studying how the space environment affects living tissue and how protein crystals grow in zero gravity. Like others who have tried to live and work in space, however, she found that the living part doesn't always go as well as the working part...
...would run the monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both neglected and spoiled, none of the children could quite absorb their mother's sense of purpose into their own lives...
...visits are necessary. I want to meet him and see what he's like and, quite frankly, without a personal approach he may go to Yale or Princeton," Murphy says, "Ivy recruiting is not that different from other schools or from Cincinnati--we just do it very Spartan and frugally...
...suggestion of a prototypical summerhouse by a few ramshackle piers and a wild strawberry patch would do Socrates proud. Such vivid, yet spartan footage gives the film its dreamlike quality. The very appearance of "Wild Strawberries" bestows a faintly abstract, contemplative air on the film. Thus, even the cinematography conveys a serene worldly wisdom...
...Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his coalition in power. He credited his long life to celibacy (begun at age 32 after his fifth child was born) and a spartan diet of fruit, milk, juice and, from time to time, his own urine...