Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach or lung operations...
...Violently racist, it demanded laws to protect the unskilled and often illiterate Afrikaner laborers against the "indignity" of working alongside blacks, hammered home the theme that Strijdom was the only man who could save South Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were...
...Nothing Shameful." A year and a half after Lucy's marriage, F.D.R. was stricken with polio. Writes Daniels: "However complete or incomplete had been the reconciliation between Eleanor and Franklin after their marriage was threatened, now he was hers to serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration...
...contrast, quietness seems to save the ears. Dr. Moe Bergman, of the Hunter College Speech and Hearing Center, and Dr. Samuel Rosen tested hearing among the Mabaans of Sudan, a tribe so primitive that they do not even beat drums, and found it pin-drop sharp...
Telephone officials were not dismayed. Said one: "Some of the calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help...