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Word: spare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife and two children live in a spare, two-room apartment of about 30 sq. yds. provided by his school. The bathroom is down the hall. In the smaller room the kids share a bed under a Michael Jackson poster. On the wall above the sink and the small stove are a calendar and a photo of the New York City skyline. "It's not much," says Bi, but the subsidized rent is only $4 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Aerobics, I learned, does not adhere to basic human rights standards established by the Geneva Convention. For 60 minutes your body is at the mercy of an instructor who 1) is not human, and 2) probably tortures stray kittens in her spare time...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

Government critics can't complain this time. That's something no one could have told Clancy, and it makes the book a worthwhile diversion for anyone with a few hours to spare...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Uncanny Realism | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Although I never believed that the team spent time rallying for socialism in its spare time, I still felt let down. What did North tell them, I wondered, win one for the contras...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...every business executive has an intellectual interest in poverty and a spare $7 million on hand to fund research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major K-School Grant | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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