Word: spend
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With a "College Board" of some 1,500 girls who spend their spare time contributing news of campus fads and fashions, the fashion magazine Mademoiselle may well boast one of the largest unpaid reportorial staffs in the publishing world. The only reward for correspondents comes each spring, when 20 of the comeliest and most conscientious are entertained and photographed in New York and then packed off for a week's gaiety in Europe...
Economists use computers and complicated formulas to plot changes in the cost of living, but the U.S. housewife has a simpler way. Says Mrs. Donald R. Petit, a Miami mother of three: "I spend $25 to $30 a week for groceries, and it comes out to $5 a bag. Last week, for the first time, they put $25 worth of groceries into only four bags...
...Stevenson's loss is immeasurably great for the U.S. and for the U.N. The admiration and love that he was given outside our country were earned through his intellectual breadth, his human warmth and spontaneous wit. I spend more time out of the U.S. than in it on my concert tours, and I was able to point to Mr. Stevenson as an American with profound understanding of world problems, with agreement from people of all countries. He saw to the core of life with a sensitivity rare in a person in public, political life-and it was this sensitivity...
...fast footsteps. Queen Elizabeth made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, promoted him to Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was New Zealand's new national hero. Then Snell began to think about quitting-while he was ahead. He wanted to spend time with his young wife Sally and at his job in public relations for Rothmans cigarette company in New Zealand. So last fall, he decided to top off his triumphal career with one last world tour...
...excellent example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some mad motorist charged with manslaughter will stall his trial right out of court...