Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terry Robinson, Crimson number four player, almost dropped his second set, but rallied to save the embarrassment, 6-1, 11-9. No other Harvard netman was extended...
...Asians save their sharpest prejudices for their own minorities, including Burma's harried Indians, Japan's Koreans and -throughout Southeast Asia-the overseas Chinese. Sixteen million Chinese live outside China, and everywhere their prosperity, diligence and clannishness arouse jealousy. Often they are accused of disloyalty to their host countries. Indonesians have stripped rich "slit-eyes" of their holdings, and Chinese in Laos are scornfully called "Mao Tse-tung." International airlines make sure that no Chinese stewardesses work on their flights to India...
...apocryphal Judith was a pious and beautiful Jewish widow who got the Assyrian commander Holofernes drunk in his tent, cut off his head and saved the people of Israel. Giraudoux's Judith, enchantingly played by Rosemary Harris, is a rich, pampered, articulate minx who means to sacrifice her virginity as an act of personal grandeur. The total modernity of heroine and play is that Judith is as brimful of self-consciousness as she is barren of faith. In a moment of mortal peril among enemy underlings, she calls on Holofernes, not Jehovah, to save...
...that will represent 98% of Penn-Central's employees, he has worked out a plan to cut the merged lines' labor force by 8,000 over an eight-year period, agreed to a $78 million severance payment and relocation expenses. This would erase most of the initial savings from consolidating services and facilities, but after that, Penn-Central would save $81 million every year...
...physical attributes. He chased after pretty young men and became so popular with prostitutes that he seldom had to pay the bill. Attracted by Western political ideas and appalled by the social, moral and religious putrefaction of the Ottoman Empire, he swore that he would somehow save his country. He plunged headlong into a series of political conspiracies. None of them succeeded, but Mustafa Kemal became known to the Ottoman police as a man to watch...