Word: rescuer
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...Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Thompson, Genet, Marguerite Higgins and Dorothy Kilgallen.) As a chauvinist creation, Lois not only bungled most of her assignments and repeatedly double-crossed the faithful Clark, but also subordinated all professional demands to her one romantic obsession. After she parachutes into a flood, she tells her rescuer, "I'd like to be in your arms always, Superman! As your wife (sigh...
...week's end a rescuer appeared. The American Bank, a smaller institution two blocks away, agreed to acquire the insured deposits of Unitedbank and buy some of its good loans. As word spread that withdrawals could be made on Monday, worried depositors in the lobby broke into wide grins...
...Iacocca's potential successors, Gerald Greenwald, chairman of the company's automaking division, and Harold Sperlich, its president. The automaker's stockholders will no doubt take it as a promising sign that Chrysler's top managers have learned how to think like Iacocca. When Chrysler's 62-year-old rescuer retires in the next few years, the company will have to get by without its most valuable asset...
...agreed. At a midnight press conference, Thatcher called the summit result "reasonable for all concerned." Her Commonwealth colleagues were less effusive. Said Gandhi: "It's not the Commonwealth that loses; Britain loses. It is not leading anymore." Pindling likened Thatcher's stance to that of a would-be rescuer who waits for the victim to drown before throwing a lifeline. Mugabe professed himself "utterly dismayed." Nonetheless, Thatcher had managed once again to buy a little more time, averting the immediate threat to the Commonwealth and forestalling any need to make a final decision on sanctions, at least until the meeting...
...introduced as "our own national hero, our own rescuer" and the audience estimated at more than 20,000 roared approval when Reagan hailed democracy in Grenada and declared, "When people are free, their rights to speak and to pray are protected by law, and the goons are not running the jails, they are in the jails...