Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late for mankind. Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself. Let's all take our about-to-be confiscated hunting rifles and kill the grizzlies in Glacier, but do it to save them the misery of choking on the wave of pollution that's bound to get us all anyway. Then when we've decimated our natural environment we'll have no more of these uncalled-for acts of horror, with the possible exception of an occasional mass murderer...
...mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse celebrating love, peace, action-and God. In this context the reader suddenly discovers that Chevrolet's slogan, "See the man who can save you the most," may have religious overtones. So can "Wonder helps build strong bodies 12 ways," improvising on the Wonder Bread slogan...
...eleventh-hour effort to save the President's $3.37 billion foreign aid bill from its knife-wielding critics, House Speaker John McCormack took to the floor last week to plead the Administration's case. "This is the time when we should continue with strength," he urged. "This is not a time for us to evidence weakness...
...systems on board have been eliminated for a weight reduction of 58 Ibs. Low hopes to peel 400 Ibs. more off Apollo by eliminating the spacecraft's lead ballast. So critical is the weight factor that even metal brackets inside Apollo are being examined for possible perforation to save additional ounces. "So far," Low said last week, "the scheme looks promising...
...faces, facades and streetscapes that look from Evelyn Hofer's photographs haunt the mind as much as Pritchett's luminous text. So much so that the disputatious Irish may save themselves some anguish by not buying the book-as if, at $15, they would dream of such folly...