Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, such White House aides as Deputy Presidential Assistant Wilton B. Persons and Presidential Counsel Gerald Morgan were fighting hard to save Adams. But the pressures were too great; e.g., it took all of Alcorn's powers of persuasion to stop Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, from publicly demanding Adams' ouster. When Meade Alcorn returned from Chicago on Aug. 28 with his report to the President, Adams...
...needed for native schooling. The natives should pay for it. "What," cried Verwoerd, "would satisfy the highest demands of morality? Would it be to spoon-feed the natives constantly, allowing them to be beggars who go on their knees to the white man? All they have to do is save 3½ pence [4?] by drinking half a pint less of Kaffir beer a week...
...climber's rope that bound them together and which was tied in a series of knots not immediately familiar to me." Struggling toward an imaginary summit, the girls suddenly yipped a victory cry. One of them hoisted a small British flag as the band brayed God Save the Queen. "It was all delightful," mused Hunt, "but what has perplexed me to this day is-where did that flag come from...
...shows employ up to 500 people, pay top wages ($125 a week for pig-iron operators, as much as $2,000 for big-name acts), keep their owners in the top tax brackets. The little 40-milers (trailer shows making short jumps between towns) sometimes let a Colonel Alter save something more than a Philadelphia bankroll, sometimes are hard put to buy groceries. But big shows or 40-milers, the carnies were migrating south last week, running from the bloomers (un profitable nights) and hunting down the red ones (good nights). And tough as times were, only the first...
...Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers of Scotch in twelve hours, and appearing on his feet in court the next...