Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impulse to Save. Supermarket defense devices are far less imaginative than the shoplifters' gimmicks. National Food trains clerks and checkers by film slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals (e.g., can tossed from hand to hand is S O S call). One-way mirrors, secret peepholes and closed-circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being...
...pavilion in order of rank-first the Russians, then the Chinese Reds, then the Eastern Europeans, with Rumania bringing up the rear (they always leave or arrive in that order). When the recess ended, the two front rows of seats reserved for foreign Communist observers were empty -save for Poland's Ambassador to Belgrade, rotund little Henryk Grochulski...
...Leacock who once remarked that whenever a beauty contest winner was announced he could think of at least five girls on his block who looked better. This, unhappily, is even more often the case with art juries and the prizes they give. Why prizes need be selected at all, save for reasons of incentive, is a much argued question which rarely gets answered. Yet, this jury did well. First prize went to Jose Buscaglia for his sculpture ". . . of an Inspiration." Sculptors too often suffer the fate of going unnoticed in an exhibition of paintings, as if their contribution...
...Sweeping its office floors with a specially treated, dust-gathering cloth to save $1,000,000 a year...
...world of other mortals. Then one day one of their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...