Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public museum from which its beauty stemmed in time grew suspicious. Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets d'art pilfered over the past 24 years. John did his last-ditch best to save some of the pieces by stuffing them into a vacuum cleaner or hiding them in a toilet tank, but it did no good: in fact, by this last-minute greediness some valuable items were ruined. The police hauled the rest of the lovely things back to the museum and turned...
...territory), Premier Mohammed Ali cried: "Disruptive forces and enemy agents are actively at work" in East Pakistan, "setting Moslem against Moslem, class against class, province against center . . . Huq and his colleagues were not prepared to take the action necessary," therefore we are "taking over administration of the province to save East Pakistan...
...Save us, Thy people, from consuming
Presumably the statue was hidden to save it from the anti-Papists in Henry VIII's time. The Mercers' chapel was in trouble with reformers as early as 1535 because of windows showing King Henry II doing penance for the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170. To save the statue from the fate of the windows, which were destroyed, somebody hid it underground, thus preserved its Renaissance beauty for the 20th century. Eventually, it will be restored to the rebuilt Mercers' chapel, long since a place of worship for the Church of England...
...cities. Last week the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., which has outgrown its headquarters in Hartford (pop. 177,397), announced that it will build a $10 million ranch-type office building on 268 rolling acres of farmland five miles northwest of Hartford. It found that it could not only save on the cost of building, but could give its employees many more facilities than in a city headquarters, thus make it easier to get help...