Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customary, the defense was alert and aggressive, with goalie Elliot Finkelstein playing his finest game of the year in goal. Early in the first period he made an exceptional save, moving some distance from the nets to cut down the shooting angle, and he made several more good ones as the game progressed...
...Moscow for some full VIP treatment. At a dinner given for him by the Stalin Peace Prize Committee, onetime (1951) Prizewinner Nenni recalled that another Italian traveler, one Marco Polo, had also traveled to Peking, where the Great Khan had entrusted him with two beautiful maidens he wanted to save from the snares of court life. Said Nenni: "Well, there is no longer a Great Khan at Peking, but rather the head of the people's government. He will not hand us young girls to be saved, but he will instead give us the dove of peace to take...
...most free. And that freedom is being free even from historic fear and fascination with an ancient foe. A snarling pugnacity will win no battles, will complete no reformation. It is itself a kind of slavery, and the Reformation was and must be a bursting of every bondage save that...
...picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about life with hubby (Emlyn Williams), a prominent figure on Her Majesty's Bench. One day he introduces Vivien to a RAFfish type (Kenneth More), and her heart is soon shot down in flames. She runs away with More, only to discover that he is actually just a big wonderful boy, and that what he instinctively wants her to be is a mother...
...proud career soldier, embittered by the fall of his country and imbued with a passion to save her, some of these attitudes were understandable at the time. But to be suffering from niggling suspicions and intransigeance more than a decade later suggests that De Gaulle either has not consulted the record of the war now available or prefers to keep unbent the ramrod that seems always to have extended from his back through his mind. The Call to Honour carries the De Gaulle story only to mid-1942, but the tone is set, and it is as annoying...