Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent article ended with the open question "Can De Gaulle once again save France-this time from himself?" I sincerely believe he cannot, because the general has kept the reins of government too tight for the French people. They have no more respect for him, only disappointment and bitterness. This has led to hatred and anarchy, which cannot be stopped any more because it has gone too far. He did very much for France and for the world but he made one big mistake: he always thought of France, never of the French people...
...Senate venerates. He was a loner. Yet he achieved a good deal simply because he worked longer and harder than most of his colleagues, assembled a better staff, sensed more deeply the nation's abiding problems. He knew that he was the only man in the country, save perhaps the President, who could make headlines with almost anything he said-and knew also that this did not always help him. He publicly questioned the war long before it became popular to do so, spoke in favor of the poor in affluent areas where it was clearly...
After five minutes, a brain deprived of blood-transported oxygen suffers irreversible and often fatal damage. Thus the doctors who tried desperately last week to save the life of Robert F. Kennedy were faced with overwhelmingly negative odds from the moment the Senator was wheeled, unconscious, from an ambulance into the city's Central Receiving Hospital...
...goes. Under the circumstances, it is understandable that the actors all look slightly dazed. In fact, the only survivor of this disaster is Director Fielder Cook, who managed to save himself by quitting before the movie was finished-which gives him an unfair advantage over the audience...
...ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests his case for all poets...