Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milk and cheese were down 15%. Pinay had worked no miracles (meat prices are still rising). As a right-wing businessman, he had merely consulted the men he knows best: France's business leaders. He persuaded department-store owners to back a price reduction campaign. He called it "Save the Franc." Some cynical shoppers thought the price cuts were more apparent than real; still, they were a step in the right direction...
...gone up to $500 a month. A kind of Latin Attlee, De Gasperi is the complete antithesis of his predecessor, Mussolini. Like Adenauer in Germany and Schuman and Bidault in France-Roman Catholics all-De Gasperi belongs to that underrecognized group of Christian Democrats who have done most to save postwar Western Europe. At a time when the left was divided in Marxist confusion, and the right was discredited by its past, the Christian Democrats were both social-minded and sustained by their faith...
Apparently the British did not consider Hilaly a strong enough man to bother trying to save. Britain's critics in the Middle East, who are numerous and noisy, saw it another way: once again Britain was foolishly letting down a friend, and inviting a Mossadegh kind of successor...
...Brushed aside God Save the Queen as South Africa's national anthem in favor of Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa), a thundering Afrikaner hymn...
...himself. After the tremendous success of Dead Souls, he had a vision of "Russia . . . turning upon me eyes full of expectation." He felt a sudden strength, and a longing to "climb that ladder." In his exaltation he began to wonder if his "great task" was not, after all, to save his generation. He took up a sequel to Dead Souls, in which he sought to illumine good as in the first volume he had exposed evil. His feet had left the ground; he could not push the work to completion...