Word: save
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is beginning to look like Coxey's Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...
...disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last week a waiter greeted a middle-aged lady by asking: "If you wear mink at breakfast, how can you top it the rest of the day?" The woman coolly taught him one of the newer ploys of ostentation: "I save my stone martens for dinner...
...Revitalized Life. With his begging bowl in hand, Jerm was informed that he could eat only what he had collected in one morning and was not allowed to save food. He was assigned to a companion and a tutor from among the professional priests and was told his priestly name-Suwanno, meaning gold. After he stated that he was a human being (because, in the Buddha's time, legend has it that a snake in human form was once ordained), Jerm formally became a priest...
...censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have a ball and save the show...
Thousands of housewives complained bitterly that their 1955-57 model washers and washer-dryers needed six or seven annoying and costly repair calls a year (v. a national average of two or three), and Hotpoint repairmen discovered faulty clutches, transmissions and filters in alarming numbers. To save its reputation and future sales, the company decided to do the only honorable thing: repair and replace some 40,000 ailing machines that had brought complaints from owners. Last week Hotpoint's 11,000 appliance dealers were busy doing just that-at a cost that the industry estimates will be somewhere between...