Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebelling a Bit. Thus, though many members were preoccupied by Viet Nam, the war did not dominate the 1966 session. Indeed, save for the fulminations of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, there was almost no meaningful opposition in Congress to the Administration's Asian policy. Yet, concerned by spiraling war costs and mounting resistance to civil rights legislation, many Democrats openly questioned the propriety of many new domestic programs...
...redhaired, bespectacled Medic Widtfeldt, who had been killed while tending a dying buddy. For his courage, the Army revealed last week, Widtfeldt, 21, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be posthumously awarded a second Bronze Star; his first was presented in August, after he ran through withering Communist fire to save a wounded soldier. Such heroism in Viet Nam is not rare, but in Widt-feldt's case it had a special quality: he was one of nearly 8,500 draft-age conscientious objectors serving their country in and out of uniform...
...eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...
Even those professors or university heads who want earnestly to "save something from the wreck of general and liberal education in our universities" are "functionaries of the very system which general education is meant to counteract," he says...
...political, religious and even geological history of the islands since the Paleolithic period. From this embarrassment of snitches, Hill & Co. selected two strong narrative threads and with them delineated a simple, impressive picture of how God-fearing but life-hating missionaries destroyed the warm brown souls they came to save...