Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ridge "like gold-miners' settlements, because they were planned and built in stages, with no overall design." The model of a Soviet atomic-power plant on exhibit at the atomic-energy conference in Geneva offended him even more: "It's a mixed grill of Hellenic and Spartan styles...
Despite her heavy duties, she always willingly helped those who asked her for spiritual help or philosophical guidance. However, during this period she was possessed with a drive for perfection, occasionally was sharply intolerant of those who could not match her Spartan spiritual pace, e.g., she scolded a nun for hinting that it was sometimes hard to stay awake during prayers...
...rescue and offered to build a new reading room, but died before contributing the cash. Finally, drawing from its unrestricted funds, Harvard remodeled again. Tearing down Gore's clustered columns, and a vaulted plaster ceiling, workmen made the reading room into an example of "uncompromising bareness and Spartan simplicity of furnishing...
...Life at Putney came as a distinct shock to the old Harvard oarsman used to the spartan rigours of Red Top. . . . Every day a press launch follows the crews, and some hundreds of people show up to watch the eights paddle off from the boathouses...
Eagerness to Please. After half a year of cramming theology, Tomio Muto took the examinations of the United Church of Christ in Japan and became a licensed minister of Tokyo's Omori Church. He spent two spartan years recasting a translation of the Bible into contemporary Japanese, and turned into a spellbinding evangelist. He was an oddity: native Christian evangelists are about as rare in Japan as Japanese are in the Bible belt. Most Japanese ministers concentrate on theology, philosophy, and on earning their livings at outside jobs. Evangelist Muto found, moreover, that Japanese eagerness to please resulted...