Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driver deftly dodged a group of bishops and gave plenty of room to an Indian theologian in a white turban. When the street ahead looked reasonably safe again, the driver turned to a newsman standing next to him. "So what are they going to do?" he grumbled. "Save the world...
...Unity. "The people of God . . . are never alone with their Lord in iso lation from the world. It is the world which He came to save . . . But this witness of the church to its Lord is weakened by our faithlessness-not least by our divisions. Therefore will the church deal with these divisions with holy impatience, and passionately strive for unity...
...sitting on a solid chunk of uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked out a claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal. When he finally reached his truck again, he was retching with agony from...
Under his will his daughter was named president or board chairman of some 50 corporations that he controlled. Ownership of the corporations was left to the Moody Foundation, a charitable trust that he set up to save his empire from being broken up to pay inheritance taxes. Mrs. Northen, as foundation chairman, and four other trustees-will vote the stock, thereby control the Moody companies. Among them: a chain of 30 hotels, three banks, eleven ranches, two daily newspapers, a commercial printing plant, a cotton company, and the American National Insurance Co., whose assets of $364 million make...
...Episodes of space travel are by no means rare in the imaginings of the mentally ill," says Plank. Equally symptomatic is the "last man" motif, in which all mankind has been annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...