Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert...
...Lagos, the newspaper Daily Sketch made an eloquent and pathetic plea for sanity. "Will no one save Nigeria?" it asked. "Is there no one whose love for Nigeria transcends love of tribe or personal safety, who is willing to come forward and seek others like himself to nurse this sick nation? If there be a man, let him come forward. Today, for God's sake...
Kick from Fossils. Despite atomic inroads, the fossil fuels have a lot of kick left. Battling to save the market they have long dominated, coalmen have turned to unit trains, automated mining equipment, and mine-mouth generating plants transmitting power across huge distances via super-high-voltage lines. Nuclear plants remain too costly for small utility companies or sparsely populated regions. In such Southwestern states as Texas, utility men insist that they will rely on cheap natural gas for years. With the total U.S. demand for electricity doubling every decade, even General Electric figures that coal consumption in U.S. power...
Confronted by the runoff, Arnall told his top lieutenants that he had to save money for the fight against Callaway, rather than spend lavishly to beat Maddox, His consequent failure to provide funds for the transportation of Negro voters was partly responsible for the disappointing Negro turnout...
...call on you, President Howard Johnson, as a new voice in M.I.T. leadership, to lead us in a rapprochement with a neighborhood that only M.I.T. can save from total and immediate annihilation," the letter declared...