Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patent-medicine producer called Isodine is surveying the frequency of colds among factory workers by sending 200 stamps a week to plant nurses who report on their cases. A Roman Catholic chaplain at Eastern Correctional Institution at Napanoch, N.Y., is collecting donations of all kinds of stamps to redeem for cash to build a prison chapel...
Perhaps the only interesting contest of the meet will be sophomore ace Walt Hewlett versus the clock. Hewlett lost his first race of the season last week to Cornell's Jim Byard, but he will probably be out to redeem himself in New York today. He will also not face any stiff competition until he meets Byard again in the Heps; none of the other Ivy schools have runners of equivalent caliber...
...great magic has been given to the men of the new cinema. What will they do with it? Will Resnais really be able to renovate the esthetic of cinema? Will Bergman at last kindle the fire in the heart and light his gloomy world with love? Will Ray redeem his prodigious promise and become the Shakespeare of the screen? Or will new men emerge and surpass them all? Whatever happens, the pioneers have broken through. The world is on its way to a great cinema culture. The art of the future has become the art of the present...
...flowing out of the U.S. said Rockefeller, "due to a failure to develop methods to support the economic development and defense of the free world without placing too great a burden on the balance of payments." Investment money is going abroad because of the "failure of the President to redeem his often-repeated 1960 campaign pledge to 'get this country moving again economically," and because U.S. interest rates are lower than some other countries...
Each weekend in August, the Italians in the North End of Boston have a festival for a patron saint or protector. Though the inspiration is religious, in practice they show some qualities that redeem them to the masses. Ice cream vendors tinkle along behind the procession, and children scream and cry just like at any other parade. The largest and most exciting is the last, the festival for Saint Antonio de Padova, but the other three are just as important...