Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drilling by the Lapidot Oil Co., part-Israeli, part-U.S. The company spudded in, ironically, almost precisely where the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. abandoned a test drilling in 1947 after going down 3,500 ft. The strike promised a major oil field, sufficient at least to save Israel $50 million* in oil imports a year, weaken the Arab states' blockade and diminish the country's dependence on the West. For the first time since their state was established, Israelis now saw the means to economic independence in their grasp. This produced an almost immediate stiffening...
Some time between June and September of this year there were purloined from the tennis courts at Soldiers Field all of the little white lines that save honest but hard-pressed players from sore temptation...
...preserves: a great grove with thousands of magnificent sequoias, including the General Grant tree, the second largest on earth (267 ft. high and 107 ft. in circumference).* Geil mobilized every man possible, laid miles of pipeline overnight, pumped continuous sprays of water for 24 hours on smoking trees to save the village and the enormous grove...
...rich ... I didn't know very much when I met him, but what I knew I knew well." Jeff has a confession to make too. "I don't hate women," he mutters. "I just hate the way they are." "I wish I could afford you," murmurs Joan. "Save your pennies," he encourages...
Poor Joan-not even the censor can save her. But he can make it legal. Jeff, it suddenly turns out. was only paying a debt of honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...