Word: spare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varied experience, says Clark, "nothing prepared me for covering Vietnamese politics, which are unfathomable to the Vietnamese themselves." Viet Nam and its troubles, he says, are an obsessive subject with everyone in the bureau. For occasional lighthearted relief, Clark reports that he and his colleagues have spent their spare time working out some novel methods for ending the war. It is doubtful that either statesmen or generals will agree on the peace-winning potential of the most imaginative of the bureau's ideas: "Drop 50,000 Honda motor scooters by parachute on Hanoi. In the hands of Vietnamese riders...
...other commitments, remains solidly behind them. President Park, who has sent some 50,000 of his best troops to South Viet Nam, feels he may have to withdraw all or part of that force if pressure from Pyongyang continues. He knows that the U.S. cannot spare more men to add to the 55,000 it already has on the ground in South Korea...
...been beaten everywhere and that the most recent fighting may be the last offensive they can mount. IN short, the illusion is created that peace is just around the corner. The South Vietnamese government well knows that this kind of thing works with some Americans, and they seem to spare no effort in pressing the point. For example, during an award ceremony for the Fifth Vietnamese Military Division, which was reported on CBS Evening News on February 3, President Thieu gave a speech in English (mind you, a speech in English to an audience of Vietnamese soldiers) in which...
...grammar school, Jack earned money to buy clothes, and played baseball in his spare time. He attended Bridgton Academy in Maine, earning his keep by getting up early in the morning to milk the cows and clean the stables...
Emerson J. Dickie, freshman football coach at Boston College for ten years, has been named as defensive end coach. He will replace Thomas F. Stephenson 64. Stephenson coached the defensive ends in his spare time; he plans to graduate from the Harvard Law School this spring...