Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saved by Two. These passions, and more, congealed when Mendès submitted his Indo-China budget. The Finance Committee scorned it, 25 to 14. When Mendès raced over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted...
More than 50,000 spectators were in the corrugated-iron stands at Twickenham, near London. As the first American to win a Rugby blue (i.e., to play in the varsity match) at Oxford since 1931,*Jones stood at attention with his teammates while the band played God Save the Queen. Oxford lost the game, 3 to 0, but Outlander Jones acquitted himself well (said the Manchester Guardian: "He gave as good as he got"). Relaxing afterward in a steaming tub, which he shared with a teammate-there were only two showers -Jones was pleased that Oxford, though honorably beaten...
...didst save...
...road was put into the black, said Young, not by an increase in business but by drastic economies. Perlman lopped some 15,000 employees off the payroll to save $100 million a year, leaving a work force of 75,000, lowest since 1930. He canceled orders for 62 new diesels ($8,300,000) placed by his predecessors, instead found 97 diesels already in service that could do "50%" more work than the new ones. He also sent diesels into repair shops once a month instead of twice, thus enabling him to close some of the shops entirely...
...leader in the movement, who refused to be named, said last night that the unit "would be more an organism than an organization." The group, he said, "would try to teach people a way of living which we feel will save the world from its current sad state...