Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborite Home Secretary at the time, Chuter Ede had refused to save Evans' life. Convinced later of his mistake, Chuter Ede made a moving confession of error to the House; the Evans case did more than anything else to agitate debate. Sir Ernest Cowers, during the four years his royal commission studied the problem, himself underwent a complete about-face from his original conviction that those who wanted to abolish the death penalty were merely "people whose hearts were bigger than their heads...
Macmillan also announced a $196 million cut in government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...
Steel Coming In. During Carnival there is scarcely a person-save a few fusty English colonials in temporary retirement on quieter islands near by-who does not "jump up" to the stimulating rhythms. In fact. Trinidad's people want music so badly that they have gone on making it over the years despite organized restrictions...
...lost man-hours. In the process they have not only taken the bitterness out of the coffee break, but have helped to spoon up a profitable new business: coffee catering, to bring the coffee in to employees. Says a Kaiser Aluminum executive in Oakland, Calif.: "Our department alone is saving $110 a month on coffeetime. I drink the coffee at my desk while I open the mail, save half an hour-and enjoy it more...
...save food and water, the mulatto was left overside to swim for it. Ten years after the event, Bulldog, by now a Member of Parliament, receives a letter from the supposedly dead man threatening to expose the others as having plotted his death. Three men gather at Bulldog's castle in the Isle of Skye to decide what to do. The novel's outcome should not be told, for suspense is the book's chief asset. But it also points a moral-clear to all castaways-that no man is fit to judge another's right...