Word: spartan
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...mystique built up around the new Governor, legends sprouted. He lived a spartan existence and slept on a bare mattress. He drove to work in an old Plymouth. He hated politicians, he never slept. He meditated. He read Hermann Hesse, Doris Lessing, Yeats, Kafka, Henry Miller...
...Soviet standards, which seem to newly-arrived Americans, Spartan, the Schecters had a luxurious apartment. Workers knocked out a wall between two rooms to give them a gigantic living room stretching from one end of the building to the other. Russian apartments rarely have rooms this large because the country has a severe shortage of apartment space, and most families in Russia must place their children in generally small living rooms. Sometimes as many as four families will share a communal apartment...
...real stars of the show will be the athletes living at the Olympic Village. Accommodations at the high-rise development on the Inn River will be spartan, but 60 cooks in the mess hall will see that none of the competitors go hungry. Each athlete is apportioned 6,000 calories a day of such dishes as Macaroni Bordelais and Ham Steak Hawaii; officials are rationed to 3,000-calorie menus. The following guide, based on reports from TIME correspondents, limns the essentials of each sport and spotlights some top competitors. Events are run under the metric system: a meter...
Hanging over one of the higher window panes in Frank Fisher's office in the back of 54 Dunster Street is a small lead frame with the stained glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration...
...more surprised than we were," defenseman Bob Leckie said last night, in reference to his team's 8-6 and 4-3 wins--the former thanks to a 5-0 first-period explosion and a lengthy Spartan layoff, and the latter owing to a great performance by goaltender Brian Petrovek...