Word: save
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...
...world is too much with them. La Alba's common touch has drawn deep frowns from the Queen, and to save Goya's neck, the duchess renounces his attentions and ships him back to Madrid. Feverish at the thought of her fickleness, he churns out the agonized, hellborn Caprichos. In the end, the lovers are briefly, sentimentally reunited at the duchess' deathbed...
...Save the Queen. The commotion might have ended there; the only event of significance the following day was the sudden "brief illness" of the city's Mayor Richard C. Lee, shortly before he was to address undergraduates on "Building a Greater New Haven." But the day after, a St. Patrick's Day parade bugled through the campus...
...while, nothing happened; a Knights of Columbus contingent even grinned when a few students quavered out God Save the Queen as they passed. Then, toward the parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and forth. Almost everyone managed to be wrongheaded about what followed. The national vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians nonsensically protested that the disturbance was an attack on Roman Catholicism; Yale students howled that it was hobnailed police brutality; and Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold charged it to "childishness...
...himself not from spiritual torpor but in expiation of a political blunder. Justine's fevered racing from bed to bed is shown to be patriotism, not nymphomania, for she and Nessim are smuggling arms into Palestine. Nessim believes that only the creation of a strong Jewish state will save the isolated minorities of the Middle East-Copts, Greeks, Armenians, Jews-from "being gradually engulfed by the Arab tide...