Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once said the Republican 80th Congress was the second worst in our history," wrote Truman, "but it has now been surpassed-in the wrong direction-by the Republican Sard ... It behooves the American people, I think, to give Mr. Eisenhower a Democratic Congress and hope that we can save him from the misdeeds of his own party...
Plot & Counterplot. General Hinh and his eager young army officers thought the times called for more vigorous measures in southern Viet Nam, on the model of Colonel Nasser's in Egypt, to save the country from Communists. Last week, suspecting a "latent plot" to overthrow his government. Premier Diem abruptly relieved Hinh as chief of staff and ordered him to leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There...
...ESCAPE OF SOCRATES, by Robert Pick (326 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). An arresting fictionalization, lightly laced with sex, of one of history's most famous trials. Unjustly condemned to drink the hemlock on the charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...
...Revenue teaching aids, soon sold the tax collectors on a large-scale program of teaching tax know-how to schoolchildren across the nation. Result: more than 23,000 schools used the service's materials in tax lessons last year; this year, 7,000 more schools will follow suit, save the Treasury millions in future errors. Cost (last year...
...nine homers, but his batting average has climbed steadily from .328 to .342, placing him second behind Dodger Duke Snider (.348). More important, Willie has batted in 105 runs and scored 106-more than any other Giant. In centerfield, he still makes the acrobatic catches and long pegs that save ball games...