Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agriculture Department spokesman said the U.S. would save $5,000,000 a year in storage costs by the 1,000,000-ton reduction in its wheat stocks. The Russians, he added, were paying cash, but he did not elaborate. The whole wheat deal, originally approved by President Kennedy in October, nearly collapsed when congressional critics tried to prohibit the extension of credit to the Russians and demanded cash instead. Whether half of the wheat would move in U.S. vessels, a condition that Kennedy laid down to make the deal politically more palatable but that the Russians resisted because of higher...
...captain scored the last Gopher goal. Forward Treadwell, assisted by Baldy Smith and Crimson's fourth score 4 minutes later. With less than three minutes left. Minnesota pulled their goalie, and six desperate Gophers moved in on Harvard goalie Brandy Sweitzer who withstood the storm, making one brilliant save...
...Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen, for at that very moment the British flag was fluttering down for the last time in neighboring Kenya...
...shock, as who wouldn't be after making love to a part-time vampire? Faustus has the vampire put to death by impalement and recovers his ring. Then master alchemists appear before him (old Ben Jonson characters like Linus Pauling) to urge that he destroy the ring and save the world. He does-by plunging with it into the fires of Hell, where he ends up playing cards with the Devil...
...Greek and American performers is Stathis Giallelis, an Athenian discovery who earns his billing on personality alone. As the would-be immigrant, Stavros, he is all boyish, self-effacing smiles when his father sends him off to Constantinople to invest his family's meager fortune and thereby save them from Turkish persecution. Everything goes wrong. Stavros is robbed and humiliated by a roguish Turk, whom he finally murders. He slaves as a hamal, hauling back-breaking burdens on the Constantinople waterfront, only to be robbed again by a prostitute. He is shot and left for dead after falling...