Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon; others said it would be fatal cowardice...
...lodgment point in the Arab Middle East, and defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of those Arab leaders in Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser would be to force many who did not want to be for Nasser...
...fifth course, and one that a modern Arab nation would probably take only to save itself from destruction: ask the U.S. and Britain to send in troops...
...work did not tax Composer Britten's creative powers. Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) is a 14th century miracle play that Britten set to music by stitching in three oldtime hymns, including the Rev. John Bacchus Dykes's powerful Eternal Father, Strong to Save. The original text, retained by Britten in all its gamy Middle English splendor, closely follows the Biblical tale of Noah, with the startling exception that Mrs. Noah is portrayed as a drunken old bawd, unwilling to enter the ark without her unsavory bevy of gossips...
...supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because the customer can save money in processing and storing costs. Small inventory is another byproduct of recession, but any real upsurge in sales would send businessmen scrambling to the producers for more goods...