Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire for monetary gain, but rather a sincere desire to save her country, motivated a local housewife to open the Book Pedlar. "AMERICANISM and our Christian heritage is [sic] the sheme and story of the Book Pedlar," she says in a small printed note of explanation. "Today, with the realization that we are living in an age when the world stands at a great spiritual crossroad--there is a definite need to distinguish truth from error. Militant atheism is waging a concerted battle for the control of the minds of men...and Americans are challenged to meet this threat...
...light; evidenced no palpable pulse; and had a few chest sounds that were thought to be heartbeats. On the basis of these findings, Dr. Carrico concluded that President Kennedy was still alive." But, added the report, "his condition was hopeless, and the extraordinary efforts of the doctors to save him could not help but to have been unavailing." One bullet had hit near the base of the back of the President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed...
...morning when the judges announced the results, six tense hours after the final contest began. As they handed Mitchell his prize, a gold medal, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and the audience stood to give him a long, warm round of applause. "All I was concerned about was to bring Australia the gold medal," said Mitchell proudly...
...VISTA matures as successfully as the Peace Corps, it should become one of the most powerful weapons in the War on Poverty. Through it the Office of Economic Opportunity can harness some of the crusading energies that individual Americans usually save for their political campaigns. But VISTA will not be pampered; the Volunteers will have to be reafed on a relatively frugal budget estimated at five million dollars. And in many ways the program's potentialities have been slighted...
Both mother and son are lonely, rootless people. Lizzie "was utterly separated from the whole race of mankind save when she was concupiscent." Quests for love and pleasure bring her only an unfaithful if swaggering lover and a dottering if well-meaning suitor...