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Word: saving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coup & Counter-Coup Sir: Your cover story on Greece and its besieged King [April 28] was excellent-objective in treating the King and the decent men who decided to save their country from Communism. The free world will be happier if fewer Castros take over; the Papandreous are worse than Fidel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...simply faced down Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects to be tacked onto the bill. When accused of "hinting" that he was deliberately tying up the tax bill as a strategy to save his Campaign Fund Act, Long boasted: "I did not hint it. I promised it. I promised that would be my course of action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: A Demeaning Indulgence | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Charnel House | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

Human Perfidy. The novelist or essayist is a careful householder, hoarding his resources; the aphorist tosses his shiny gold coins on the floor, seeking neither to save nor to order them. That is why the art of aphorism has rarely been considered major. Yet it is through his misanthropic aphorisms that Bierce should enter literature for keeps. The confident, eupeptic American spirit also has its dark side. And of those writers who chose to dwell on its shadows, few perceived or portrayed them with greater clarity than Bierce. His agonized view of human perfidy, which he found everywhere, raps imperatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Misanthrope | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Would You Believe? | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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