Word: saving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official cavalcade rolled slowly down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and turned into Kwame Nkrumah Circle. A huge statue of Nkrumah confronted him at Parliament House. Before Prince Philip were massed miles of red-yellow-and-green Ghana flags, but scarcely a union jack. Not once did Philip hear God Save the Queen. Ghana's newspapers, its stamps and its currency show Kwame Nkrumah, not Elizabeth...
...tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save the Christian face of Cuba...
Jane Todd Crawford, 47, mother of five, was sure that she was pregnant again. But though her body swelled, she felt no quickening within her. Something was wrong. Surgeon Ephraim McDowell diagnosed Jane Crawford's trouble: no pregnancy, but a tumor. Only surgery might save her. McDowell had never heard of success in abdominal surgery of such severity, to remove a tumor of this size. The year...
Almost every scientist at the University enjoys some sort of financial support from outside agencies. For example, every professor and instructor in the Department of Chemistry save one receives government money for research, according to Ronald E. Vanelli '41, director of the Chemical Laboratories. This also holds in the Departments of Physics and Biology, where the amount of funds available for research has increased greatly...
...kamikaze planes had splashed close by destroyer Walke when a third crashed into the bridge, drenching her skipper, Commander George F. Davis, with gasoline. For a moment, he burned like a torch. Sailors near him smothered the flames and he exhorted officers and men to save the ship. While still on his feet, he saw Walke's guns destroy a fourth kamikaze. Finally he consented to be carried below; a few hours later he died...