Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Less flamboyantly spartan," Annapolis allows midshipmen to take majors and uses civilian professors in academic departments. But all department heads are naval officers ("often uninformed"), who come and go every three years. Tackling this problem, the Navy is now out to find Annapolis a civilian academic dean "of national rank." Boroff is not sanguine about the "Brother Rat mentality" at Annapolis, where foreign language study (a first-rate department) is known as "dago," and the catch-all department of English, history and government is called the "Bull Department...
Freelancers say that theirs is a spartan life. Havemann agrees. But by his own confession he spends half his life at the track, improving the breed and defending his self-endowed title of world's champion handicapper. Nor does he regard writing as a chore. "I write when I feel like it. I do a lot of gardening while thinking about the story. When I get an idea of the form or how to start, I go in the house and write." Then it comes quickly: he once produced 5,000 words for LIFE in just under seven hours...
...Phanthiet, 90 miles east of Saigon, on an off-duty hunting trip. Instead of game, Sergeant Matagulay ran into a band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, was held captive until his release last month. Last week, in his first press conference since he was freed, Matagulay depicted the spartan life and grim dedication of the Viet Cong...
...doubt that the Chinese would like to topple Khrushchev if they could. So far they have had precious few successes, though they are doing their best in world propaganda to show how resolute they are in India, how weak Khrushchev has been in Cuba. The belligerent and Spartan Peking line, perhaps required by Red China's own economic misery, may have some impact on the most doctrinaire of Communists around the world, but it is a backward and dated dogma that probably has less appeal than Khrushchev's optimistic promises of a better life and peaceful victory over...
...long-docile labor unions last year pressured wages and fringe benefits up 13.6% to $1.20 an hour, the highest in the Common Market; simultaneously, they pushed the average work week down to 41.3 hours, lowest in the Market. German executives, who once boasted of their nation's Spartan industriousness, now complain that many Germans do not work as hard as the 700,000 Spaniards, Greeks and Italians who have been imported to work in Germany. One piece of supporting evidence: since sick pay was introduced by law in 1954, the rate of absenteeism for "illness" has jumped from...