Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gifford Proctor protested: "But if you're caught here, all of us will go to jail," and others rose to argue pro and con. Suddenly a high cry of anguish broke into the dialogue. "We'll take them in! We'll save them, won't we, Mother?" shrilled five-year-old Kim Sanders. His mother shushed him, and the talk went...
After a while Gifford Proctor changed his mind. "You'll save us?" asked Sam Lawrence. "No." said Gifford quietly, "it's we who will be saved." The "Hungarians" were hustled off behind the altar then, and the people in St. Matthew's raised their Christmas voices in Gloria in Excelsis...
...city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million...
After Suez. Not all Britons objected. Many recognized that in the Arab countries, Britain and France are currently so discredited that only the U.S. can save positions essential to all of them (a quite different thesis from the angry Tory backbench contention that U.S. interests are trying to drive the British out of the Middle East). They understood that the alliance stands as firm as ever in the geographical limits of its primary purpose-the defense of Europe-and that Britain remains the U.S.'s closest friend by blood, interests and sentiment. This fact was underlined last week when...
...will remove 15 million cubic yards of earth-5,000,000 truckloads-to lay a gently graded four-lane highway 5-3/10 miles through the mountains to Los Angeles. All to cut 1-4/10 miles off the old route across the mountains, and thus, in 1957, save 3¼ minutes in the driving time it takes workers to get to their jobs...