Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years since, the Dominican Republic has suffered four coups and five changes of government, trying to find its way out of the political vacuum created by Trujillo's death. Democracy is still hardly more than a word in a land that has never known any law save force...
Undergraduates joined the fun by staging a Save the Sycamore "protest" which held up Memorial Drive traffic for an hour and caused the MDC to bring on the canines...
...semantic associations of the name "Citizens' Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive" perfectly ilustrate this. "Citizens' Committee:" an image of public spirited opposition, the common man. "Emergency:" connoting the burying of petty hostilities and a rushing to rally around the cause. "Saving:" an appeal to the New England tradition thrift. And oven the word "Memorial:" a suggestion of the taboo on violating the sanctity of the dead...
...enough on this issue to cost them votes. And for this, Bernays uncorked what he refers to as the "Segmental Approach." He takes a minor aspect of one general cause and projects it to the major interest of particular group. Or as Bernays explains it, "if you project the Save Memorial Drive movement in terms of money, the bankers will obviously support it. It is their business to be concerned with the sound handling of money...
...allowed to retire are deeply hurt." As a result, a professor who has the slightest doubt about being asked to stay is tempted to resign near the age of 60 and to accept a position where employment is guaranteed to a later age. This allows him to save potential face and to insure that he continues to earn a living for several extra years...