Dictionary definition: SIX hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool

Article: Texas Inmate Spared Hours Before Death
AP Online;  November 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of his or her role. When his execution was to be held in 24 hours, prison officials and a squad of guards showed up outside his ... inmates are in near total isolation, even spending their daily hour of recreation by themselves. Meals are served in the cells ...

Article: Football: LINE UP TO BRING AN END TO PITCH BATTLES.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England);  January 16, 2007 ;     516 words ... ... can genuinely save them money, and cut back on man-hours, must be worth considering. This was the inspiration ... years and because it lasts for years, groundsmen will be spared hours of toil. The procedure utilises an open weave fabric ...

Article: Texas executes man; Forgiveness: He apologizes to the mother of ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 23, 2001 ;     681 words ... ... Mitchell's case has failed to attract the global attention given in August to fellow inmate Napoleon Beazley, who was spared hours before he was to have been put to death for killing the father of a federal appeals court judge when he was 17. "I ...

Article: Bridge lift beats gridlock clock.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  October 25, 1999 ;     399 words ...DRIVERS was spared hours of gridlocked traffic at the weekend when work on the Kingston Bridge ... raising the 52,000-ton bridge by one-and-a-half centimetres 16 hours ahead of schedule, and re-opened it at 2pm yesterday. The pounds ...

Article: QANTAS CUTS LAST MINUTE DEAL WITH ENGINEERS TO AVOID STRIKE.
AsiaPulse News;  May 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... offer. The association was threatening a four-hour strike in the afternoon peak hour tomorrow. But today ACTU president Sharan Burrow ... Qantas, Mr Dixon said most passengers would be spared hours of waiting in airport terminals. "This decision ...

Article: Ex-officer says boys should have been found much sooner
The Northern Echo;  March 16, 2009 ;     597 words ... ... out the better and those boys' parents could have been spared hours of mental agony. "It is so effective - all members of ... We don't want to bombard people with messages at all hours." But Coun Griffiths said the scheme is only effective ...

Article: ABSOLUTELY AWFUL; Inspired: Ab Fab's Edina and Patsy were based ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... parents hope. But at least most of us were spared hours of Buddhist chanting alongside Sting and ... also sounds quite time-consuming two hours a day in a room with an altar and all ... There were five minutes at the end of the hour when we'd chant for world peace, but ...