Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional cry broke the cathedral silence of the marble courtroom: "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw nigh and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court." The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, convened in extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents...
...make any substantial savings from being President," said Herbert Clark Hoover, noting with approval that Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill creating an annual $25,000 pension for ex-Presidents. "My situation differs from other, and probably future, former Presidents," explained the 31st U.S. President. "America provided me with an education, including a profession [mining engineer], I practiced that profession in years when there was no income tax or only a small amount. I was able to save a competence.* I have considered that I have a great debt to my country for the opportunities it has given me. Therefore...
Trying to salvage the one good thing left to him-his daughter Monica's love-Claverton tells her the truth about himself and finds that "if a man has one person to whom he is willing to confess everything, then he loves that person, and his love will save him." As a serene Claverton goes off to die under a beech tree-faintly echoing Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus-he wears his fate like a royal robe: "I feel at peace now. It is the peace that ensues upon contrition when contrition ensues upon knowledge of the truth...
Skipper Thach works his people hard. "We pay overtime," says he wryly, "after 24 hours a day." Task Group Alfa fuels its destroyers during mealtimes to save precious hours. He has cut his 10,000-mile outdoor classroom into four segments, runs off exercises in each one-as many as a dozen in a day and night. With the completion of each exercise, he folds his 160-lb., 6-ft. frame over the chart tables, carefully puts on his reading glasses for a close, almost wordless examination of the results. And the exercises continue unceasingly, each one posing new problems...
...Marda Vanne broke up after a year, is rarely mentioned by his Nationalist followers, among whom divorce is shameful. At his death, Strijdom had not cut all ties with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...