Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether Dr. Marshall is praying for me or at me." Senators, who have their moments of ringing and hollow oratory, came to find Peter Marshall's prayers plain and pertinent. Once he prayed: "When we do not know what to say, keep us quiet." Another time he said: "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith...
Through three furious days of politicking, not one committeeman had any real praise for Tom Dewey. Even Hugh Scott, fighting to save his own neck, scrubbed frantically to wash off the Dewey colors. Dewey, he cried, "should not, could not, and will not be a candidate in 1952 . . . We've suffered because we tried to me-too the New Deal. I announce here and now that there's an end to that." No one else had a good word for me-tooism either: most everyone talked as if the party only needed to have been forthrightly conservative...
...Hungary's 1,000,000 canine population. Henceforth, all mongrel males over one year old are to be sterilized. Dog owners who violate the law are liable to as much as six months in prison. Quipped one Budapest wit: "They want to kill the purebred humans and save the purebred dogs...
...fact, not a scheme to spend money, but to save money. Explained the aide: "The whole point of the plan is enlightened self-interest. We don't want to go on forever handing out doles. The Marshall Plan gets them over the hump, but it will be the great, imponderable strength of our technical skills, combined with their manpower and resources that will help these countries...
...jumped the party line, but he seems to have lost his novelist's direction in the process. Neil Miller, his hero and narrator, is a cynical ex-hobo (Newhouse rode the rods in his day, too) who works in a New York publishing house; his aim is to save $1,000 and escape from it all on a tramp steamer. Larry, the publisher, is a serious, decent, do-gooding young millionaire who wants to put out good books but is completely dominated by his Communist staff...