Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early age as a result of unwanted pregnancy; many much younger lives have been ruined when children of tender ages have found that they are not really wanted in homes where their birth was an "accident." To liberalize abortion laws would not be to encourage immorality but would, rather, save many worthwhile U.S. citizens from disastrously burdensome problems...
...that "she had a tremendous fear of, frankly, losing me. She needed someone to whom she could come home, someone to cook for, to keep house for," he contended, ignoring the fact that Mrs. Duncan had been married at least ten times. There was no public drive to save Mrs. Duncan; of 220 messages on her case reaching Governor Brown, 165 urged that she and her hired hands be executed...
...York, unlike most cities of Europe and elsewhere, has no civic authority to preserve its landmarks. Last week, in the hope that publicity might save the day, 500 architects (the most notable: Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph) banded together with the newly formed Action Group for Better Architecture in New York and marched on Penn Station with signs that said: "Don't Demolish It! Polish...
...schools the totok irascibly and well. Ives shows him selfless compassion in a colony of lepers, superstitious fear and grief in a plague-ridden village that must be dynamited hut by hut, aristocratic pride and dignity in a top-hatted native chief who tries to save his rat-ridden palace from Ives's sanitizing torches by playing billiards for it. These scenes, and the hot tropic scenery, are stubbornly convincing. Ives cannot school Hudson to believe in God, perhaps because his own version harbors more fear than love: "Out here in the jungle when a man doesn...
...contracting a long and expensive illness that would make them a disastrous burden to their families or force them into the charity wards. People who might be able to live reasonably well on a modest income do not dare to spend it, feel compelled instead to scrape and save every penny against the day that they may fall...