Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely Italian and Irish, was expelled from parochial school for bad conduct, was arrested once for larceny, will probably gravitate to the Brooklyn docks where, as he well knows, bigtime crime is rampant. "Sometimes guys come to work on the docks," he says. "They hope to make money, save it and get away and go into business. But they never make it. How can they? Where else can you earn that kind of dough...
...world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members to take some sort of action to save the regime, i.e., the princes' enormous financial allowances...
Last fall eight of the most articulate Angries announced their own credos in a noisy manifesto called "Declaration." The manifesto revealed that the group was not a group at all, but split fair in two over the artist's ancient agonizer: whether to save the world by his exertions or by his example. Half, led by Osborne, Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation...
...were agreed on in advance. On the other hand, many economists and businessmen favor a tax reduction without any cutoff date, believe that a cut advertised as temporary beforehand might defeat its own purpose. Taxpayers might be reluctant to spend on the basis of a temporary cut, instead save their tax bonus...
...miles and half a thousand pages, the Redskins keep coming. "We'll stand them off," says one embattled paleface. "If we don't, save a ball for the women and children." The reader can have himself a different kind of ball with this book-if he will only persevere. Versatile Author Taylor (Center Ring, W. C. Fields) follows in the footsteps of a master of the picaresque. Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) was a superbly comical novel, in letter form, about a family traveling around England in the days of highwaymen...