Word: savely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with Barry for a nomination that looked more and more like a booby prize. Besides, a lot of the kingmakers think that President Johnson, all things being relative, has done a good job. In the '30s and '40s, Republican leaders were passionately convinced that they had to "save the country" from Franklin Roosevelt, but nobody talks about saving the country from Lyndon, except perhaps the A.S.P.C.A. "It's surprising," said a Republican leader, "how few enemies Johnson...
...would arise with flailing arms to castigate the Pentagon. Starting with Philip of Macedon's tactics, he would trace the history of warfare through Henry V down to the first and second World Wars. Military men, he protested, were not susceptible to change-especially changes that might save money. "We had a deuce of a time getting them to give up the cavalry," he cried. "They liked to ride those horses...
...issues, visited old people's homes and was aided by no fewer than 14 relations, including his charming wife Sara ("I know you won't believe a word I say about him, but . . ."). More help came from eight Tory backbenchers calling themselves the "S O S" (for "Save Our Seat") squad...
...over the land searching for last-minute finds. At least 23 of Nubia's major historical sites have been or will be res cued from the waters-some of them simply by being cut up and carted away. A West German engineering firm won a UNESCO contract to save the Upper River's most famous temple: the sandstone statuary and columns carved 3,000 years ago on the order of Pharaoh Ramses II at Abu Simbel, 180 miles above Aswan...
...miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain dilution in the new settlements. But as one Egyptian said: "What is left to us but to drown the past in order to save the future...