Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjustment, which set the tone of LÓpez Mateos' first year, was a tough and successful fight to save the peso from devaluation. In the first six months of 1958, under free-spending President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a budget in the red by $66 million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade...
...even a second-half appearance by balding Forty-Niner Quarterback Y. A. Tittle, still gimpy from an earlier Colt game, could save the day against a gang-tackling Colt defense led by massive (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Gino Marchetti. Final score: Colts 34, Forty-Niners 14. The victory at the least assured the Colts a first-place tie, setting up the prospect of another classic clash for the pro championship between Baltimore and the New York Giants, who won the Eastern Conference title by routing the Cleveland Browns...
...While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all alternatives...
...sound education" for his sect. Still more important is a rabbi. "Who can come to the spiritual rescue of these unfortunate remnants in a country of 370 million people?" asks Benjamin. "Only a rabbi with sufficient knowledge of their' background and sympathy with local traditions and customs can save them...
...true, of course, that time is on the side of the West. After all Scheherzade did save her life by merely talking. But then that was just a fairy tale...