Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...active Senate fight for censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. They were also alone in defending their personal honor against the attacks of Joe and his cohorts. The rest of the Senate sat silent-or in the case of several top Republican leaders, worked for a backroom deal that would save McCarthy...
...Lightning Joe" Collins got off to a remarkably confident start. "I have come out to Indo-China," he told a press conference, "to take measures to save this region from Communism. I have come to bring every possible aid to the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and to his government only . . ." Collins was politely telling French and Vietnamese intriguers that Diem, for all his weaknesses, was America's man, and that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup...
Externally, Manhattan is still far from deserving its new dignity. Its lofty skyline, magically beautiful from a distance, is made up mostly of architectural eyesores. The city's die-straight thoroughfares have unparalleled sweep and grandeur, but-save for Central Park-they lack sufficient stopping places for eye and feet, the attractive squares found everywhere in Paris. Finally, Manhattan can boast no artist thought great around the world (in all the U.S. there is only one of such stature: midwestern Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...total) settle to the bottom, along with dead white cells and platelets. A technician draws off the plasma and throws it away. At the same moment, possibly in a hospital across the street, another doctor wants to give plasma to a victim of burns or surgical shock. To save time, he usually gives whole blood, although all he wants is plasma. This way, a Niagara of blood has been wasted, because there has been no practical method of keeping red cells or whole blood more than about three weeks, and keeping plasma is even more difficult...
...even reprints cannot save an otherwise bleak issue. Occasional signs of promise do not take the place of humor. D. J. Golden, in describing a phonograph record in the opening article, writes: "Certainly there was little that could provoke even a grin . . ." The comment is all too applicable to the Lampoon...