Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoover Commission, instead of trying to save the Government money, denounced Secretary Hobby's Department of Health, Education and Welfare for not having spent enough-on research. Specific target: $7,400,000 needed by the National Institutes of Health for a backlog of 723 research projects on topics ranging from mental health to photosynthesis...
...trial both men confess, Rab as a last pious rite to the party, Father Janos to save his friends and fellow priests from further torture. But before he mounts the gallows, Rab, feeling "an absolute void within me,"' kneels before Father Janos and asks "to die in the peace of faith." Author Kovács sometimes mashes a thumb with his literary chisel, but when he hits the historic mark, the apocalyptic tableau of hammer and sickle v. the cross stands out in bold, fresh relief...
...seven students from the University of California's Berkeley campus began their program in the big A.F.L. Labor Temple in Oakland, a baldheaded truck driver in the audience snorted: "College kids. Bet they tell us how to save the world. I wish I'd stayed home and watched...
...magazine with scope, not scoop," he had one simple objective: to try to put the company on its feet. When Smith was named president more than a year ago, he knew he had a hard job ahead of him. (Collier's had just taken a drastic step to save itself by changing from a weekly to a biweekly.) But it was harder than he expected. Less than a month after he took over, he found that Crowell-Collier, once one of the richest U.S. publishers (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American, books), did not have enough...
...George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...