Word: spartanic
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...Moines, Babbitt bypasses the Savery Hotel, the venerable political hot spot, and stays instead in the spartan Kirkwood, with its scuffed furniture and worn carpets. No luxury suites here. One night, when Hattie Babbitt settled into bed at the Kirkwood, she asked her husband, "Do I smell mildew?" But the odor was not the hotel linens. She laughed. "It was his T shirt...
Only 27 miles north of embattled Seoul, across the 38th parallel, is another Korea, in every sense an opposite to the turbulent, economically dynamic South. Hunkered behind miles of barbed wire and minefields, Communist North Korea is a constant, sometimes threatening presence in South Korean life. Spartan, plodding, more regimented than all but a few other Communist nations, it seems to act with one corporate mind. That mind belongs to Kim Il Sung, 75, the "Great Leader" who has been whipping North Korea into a model Communist state for 39 years. Kim's stable despotism is backed...
...staging is spartan, with all the action taking place around a group of chairs and a single table, which serve as a shelter where battered women discuss--sometimes with more than a touch of melodrama--marital disputes. The disputes are reinacted with only minor scene changes...
...adjacent hill to Dumbarton Oaks sits a spartan, classical one-story structure known as The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. The institution was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation to provide a locus for studies in the Classical Greek tradition, reversing what was then seen as a general movement away from the study of the Classics...
...Spartan defenseman Brad Hamilton took advantage of a faceoff to close the gap, and a goal by Brian McReynolds gave Michigan St. its first lead of the contest...