Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru, he believes that blocs encourage war. Last year, U Nu cut off U.S. Point Four aid in token of his "non-alignment." During the Geneva Conference, U Nu learned further grounds for caution: 12 million neighboring Vietnamese were handed over to Communism; U.S. oratory did not save them. "It is criminal, unforgivable," complained Burma's U Kyaw Nyein, "that the super-power upon whom so much depends should be the amateur . . . the Soviet Union the professional...
...insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass bands broke loose (two were placed in the auditorium, giving a kind of stereophonic effect) ; they sounded for all the world like the trumps...
...doctors moved among them, checking symptoms and-all too often-confirming the diagnosis of polio. With more than 500 cases reported already, and with the worst weeks of August and September still ahead, it was clear that Los Angeles County is in the grip of its severest epidemic, save only that of 1948. One hopeful note: the strain of polio in Los Angeles appeared to be less virulent than in former years, was causing proportionately fewer cases of paralysis...
...Going short" is an ancient and accepted practice in securities markets. It is also such a hazardous endeavor that few market players save virtuosos are advised to try it, and sometimes they are sorry. Last week one such rueful expert was Wall Street's George Geyer, one of the nation's biggest dealers in insurance stocks, who closed the doors of his brokerage house "indefinitely" while he counted up the cost of going short...
Even so, the beasts of the field (devotedly taken on film by Tom McHugh, James R. Simon. N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., Cleveland P. Grant and others) marvelously save the situation with their grace and large-eyed innocence, the way children often do when Daddy is being his worst...