Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above politics, she remained, as one expects queens to be, a natural Tory. Thus she ignored the Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous...
...Bulletin Staff, make Good News Try to trump up some vict're for dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick Nix n Spiro, save your glee For the office party at I.T.T. Cheers to Popkin. Schorseh and Blustein. Applause for BSO and Bernstein. (But maybe that one doesn't rhyme If steen now has the sound of stine) But cheers, no less, you're quite fantastic. For you, Norton Poet, a hudibrastic. (Now, Paula...
...first vote at the National Committee meeting in Washington, Westwood won. By 105 to 100, she beat back an effort to force her out of office. That victory allowed her to save face. She had not been purged, but she knew by then that her real support had crumbled. She offered her resignation. New candidates were nominated, and on the first ballot Strauss beat two other contenders with 106½ votes-4½ more than he needed...
...through shrewd acquisitions by their holding companies of independent banks and mortgage companies. Unlike the $20 billion giants, the medium-sized regional banks are small enough to avoid antitrust litigation, yet big enough to provide sound management and a wide array of services for people who want to borrow, save or invest money...
...calamitously overcrowded refugee camp across the border in Zambia, where an estimated 19,000 have been fighting among themselves for the meager water supply. As many as nine are dying daily, mostly children. Said a distressed Zambian official last week: "Only a change of heart by Dr. Banda can save them...