Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very exact definition of this "normalcy," but almost everyone at Yale agrees that it has to be attained if the University is to save itself from the dilution of educational standards they forsee at universities that try to absorb huge future increases in college students...
...Gaitskell, his onetime friend, Butler added, "I reserve neglect." Recalling that Britain's reserves had poured out during Gaitskell's tenure, Butler reminded the House that "all the records show is that cheese imports were reduced to save $40 million." Butler gestured scornfully towards Gaitskell, sitting opposite. "This marvelous roaring lion," he said, "is a little mouse who could only gnaw at a piece of cheese...
...rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...
...result, How to Win Friends, sold 5,000,000 copies in the English editions, was translated into 31 languages (including a recent Burmese version by Prime Minister U Nu). Sample Carnegie maxims: i) let the other man feel the idea is his, 2) smile, 3) let the other man save face...
Deadfall's first blunder is to show all this at the outset, so that the second, or courtroom, half of the evening merely drives in the coffin nails. There is no suspense and-a second serious error-no final twist that might help save the day. Among other blunders, the writing is studiously mediocre...