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  • r  in a thrifty manner
    a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket

  • Actually, Editor Sanders, 46, had run the branch so thriftily that she not only kept the staff at 75 (authorized: 96), but the cost of Amerika ($150,000 last year) was well below .
  • But the sons came back, married Swiss girls, toiled thriftily, and went right on preserving the customs of Canton Glarus which they had never seen.
  • After thriftily digging into its storehouse of possible reissues, RKO dusted off the 19-year-old King Kong, the adventures of a snarling, 50-ft.
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  • Jimmy Carter in International Herald Tribune
    It was a very different era back then, when Congress was willing to enact tougher gasoline standards and when then-President Jimmy Carter called on the country "to live thriftily" and "find ways to adjust and to make our society more...

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