Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profoundest pity." said the government's lawyer, "since it shows to what limits he was prepared to go to prostrate himself for his people. Kastner could not have called himself a man if he had not favored his friends and relatives on the rescue train. Everyone acts to save his loved ones first. He who denies this is a hypocrite." Defense Attorney Tamir saw it differently. "You began as an ambitious leader," he shouted at Kastner, "and ended up as a Nazi agent...
...court found Kastner even more guilty. "When he accepted the Nazi offer to save 600 Jewish souls," said the judge, "Kastner sold his soul to the devil. Masses were sacrificed for the sake of a few. He broke his trust with Jewry. That was collaboration in the fullest sense of the word." Among the wider jury of Israel's people, the balance between the few and the many was not so easily struck. The violence of the judge's remarks redounded in a certain sympathy for Kastner. Last week, going back and forth to work in a closed...
...stamped out, and in the freezing weather formed a laager (camp) at the foot of a statue of General Louis Botha, valiant warrior against the British in the Boer War. All night long and all the next day and night they stayed there, huddled in blankets and occasionally chanting, "Save the Constitution." Hoodlums tried to move them by throwing firecrackers, but the husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live...
...temporary relief. Earlier this year in Phoenix, Ariz., a group of ministers offered, while Roberts was in town, to pay $1,000 for any proof of divine healing, got no comers. Of such doubters, Roberts says: "I'll leave them to their theology. I'm out to save souls. I have more friends among doctors than among ministers...
Brief Encounter. In Hampton Court, England, after Neil Dronfield, 8, fell off a bridge into the Thames, followed by Frank Willingdale, who was trying to save him, followed by Mrs. Willingdale, who was trying to save her husband, followed by the four Willingdale children, aged two to seven years, a stranger strolled by, pulled all seven out of the water, departed without disclosing his name...