Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consented to allow surgeons to remove his son's sole remaining cancerous eye. It was a decision he had agonized over for five weeks. "I've cried myself to sleep every night since I made the decision," he said, "but it's the only way to save his life. The doctors convinced me of that." After the operation, surgeons pronounced Johnny's chances of recovery from cancer "reasonably good." Two days later, Johnny's doctor explained to him what had happened: "The eye was sick, and I had to take it out to keep...
...with the rest of the world. If we neglect to minister to its birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express, chorused fervent approval...
...slave whose thoughts and actions are governed by an electronic gadget grafted into his brain. There might be some truth in this fiction, says Electrical Engineer Curtiss R. Schafer, who designs and develops electronic instruments for the Norden-Ketay Corp. of New York City. Electronics, he believes, could save a lot of work for the indoctrinators and thought-controllers of the future...
...board. What the boss is trying to say is that Taylor, who is about to amalgamate with Little Miss Amalgamated, had better go to London first and tie up that $40 million deal with Carew, Ltd. "Believe me, Cliff," says Industrialist Ives with deep feeling, "the men who saved the world were never stopped by the Ten Commandments." Cliff replies with equally deep feeling: "I hope the day will come, sir, when I can be as truthful as that." Off he goes, looking smug, to save the world for the stockholders...
Anyway, Taylor takes her home and together they undertake to save American Big Business from a danger that has not seriously threatened it for a generation: the reign of the robber baron. For a while Taylor has to suffer an angry case of Ives, but in the end everybody agrees that "when power comes to exist for itself, it becomes a losing proposition...