Word: spartan
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...lonely splendor of the spartan but magnificently located office seven stories above Pennsylvania Avenue is a dream job to a poor but idealistic Jersey City boy who bootstrapped his way through law school aspiring to public service like his childhood heroes, trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt and gangbuster Tom Dewey...
...chief message to married parents is clear: Suck it up if you possibly can, and stick it out. But even if you agree with Wallerstein, how realistic is such spartan advice? The experts disagree. Then again, her advice is not for experts. It's directed at people bickering in their kitchen and staring up at the ceiling of their bedroom. It's directed at parents who have already divorced and are sitting alone in front of the TV, contemplating a second...
...ready for some football? Does anybody ever answer "no" to that question? Certainly not any of us here at the spartan training camp that is the TIME.com nerve center, a happy place where religion and politics have reached an uneasy truce but the NFL is welcome at any hour. Returning for a second straight year are Long Island Slim, Mean Josie Greene and the K.C. Line, fresh off a rigorous off-season conditioning program and some cracklin' spring minicamp performances and ready to tackle the big questions facing the league in Week One, like "What gives with those new Rams...
...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...
...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...