Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kentucky Derby winner Chateaugay will probably go off the favorite in Saturday's 87th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, but the smart money (Le., mine) is going on Candy Spots to redeem himself after his disappointing third place finish in the Churchill Downs classic...
Stop the Singing. To make sure that there will always be ready cash to redeem shares in the fund, one-fifth of it will be invested in U.S. industries. The remainder will be fed gradually, so as not to rock the young Tel Aviv stock market, into Israeli government-held stocks as well as into private insurance, banks, utilities and such land development projects as the nourishing Dead Sea Works (TIME, March 1). The new money, the biggest single block ever to enter Israel, will help to expand growth projects, while charity will continue to cover such ventures...
...redeem the professor's reputation, a colleague (Dirk Bogarde) engages to repeat his experience. While the camera dispassionately supervises, Bogarde is led into a room impermeable to light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to body heat. His external sensations disappear, and as the hours go by he passes through six successive stages of sensory deprivation: irritation, melancholia, hallucination, panic, disorientation and stupor. When his assistants finally haul him out of the tank, Bogarde is more like a jellyfish than a human being, a mindless blob...
...encouraging results of an informal government clemency program in effect since February that has caused the defection of more than 2,700 Viet Cong followers, including several minor Red officials. Under the terms of the new proclamation, Red defectors "will be given the opportunity to reform and redeem themselves by deeds, and depending on these deeds, will be entitled to lighter sentences or be absolved of past offenses." But the offer of amnesty applies only to Viet Cong sympathizers and not to hard-core Communist cadres, who, Diem feels, are incapable of rehabilitation...
...whose tuna started the scare, removed all of its Washington-packed tuna fish from the shelves, offered to return the purchase price not only of its own brand tuna but of any brand a customer wished to redeem. Tiny Washington Packing, which cans tuna for a variety of labels (Tastewell, Ocean Beauty, Drake's Bay, Tuna-4-Cats) and has never had trouble before, closed down its plant as cases of tuna began to return to the company. No one accused the firm of any violations of health regulations that would account for the presence of the deadly spores...