Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the 291 magic words that can make the difference between your success and failure?" Dexter Davis does; in fact, he probably knows upwards of 300 or 350 magic words. I suppose a man's got to save up something for his old age but at least he's willing to part with a big chunk of them at nominal rates. Mr. Davis supplies enough to "gain you that mastery of language that will open the door to your heart's desires" This, of course, is all very fine for Yale, where the book is a standard text in English...
...nightshirts and shirtsleeves Bernard and the dignitaries passed the buckets to save Hollis, Stoughton, and Massachusetts, but Harvard was razed. In ashes was the nation's largest library, which had included John Harvard's collection, stuffed birds, the "Skull of a Famous Indian Warrior," and the entire "Repositerry of Curiousities...
...Commission's proposals, it figured, mean spending an extra $106 million, but save $400 million for a net cut of $294 million a year...
...corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists, the colonial troops are unreliable. In this atmosphere, Chaplain Roget's spirit is badly battered. Fear paralyzes him in the midst of a vicious battle for a strongpoint. When Roget lets his driver die without trying to save him, and fails even to comfort the dying, the colonel's contempt becomes withering. Then, piled onto his knowledge of his own unworthiness, Roget is forced to admit to himself that he is tempted by the nymphomaniac wife of an American missionary...
Tears & Cold Turkey. Last week the machine mowed down Mayor Martin Kennelly, 67, a businessman with snow-white hair and matching reputation, who was drafted in 1947 to save the Democrats from defeat (after the noisome reign of Boss Ed Kelly). In two terms Kennelly cut the crime rate, reduced prostitution and open gambling, started school reforms and slum-clearance projects. He played along with the machine on patronage-but not far enough. Flushed with confidence after last November's Democratic victory in congressional elections, the leaders decided that Kennelly's degree of independence was an unnecessary nuisance...