Word: save
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hope the whole nation will move with us to save the lives of our young people who would otherwise be hooked on drugs and be physically, mentally and morally destroyed," said Nixon...
Railpax seems likely to save some passenger trains from becoming extinct, but it will hardly work miracles in restoring long-haul service, which attracts mainly sightseers. Few passengers are still willing to spend three days traveling coast to coast, or two days from the Northeast to Texas. The legislation empowers Transportation Secretary John Volpe to decide what routes Railpax must serve at the outset. He will probably order continued service over heavily traveled corridors, particularly between Boston and Washington. Some long runs that draw varying amounts of patronage-for example, the Northeast to Florida, Chicago to New Orleans...
...Feder and Laszlo Pasztor '73, president of the Harvard YAF, expressed support for a massive petition campaign to save the two hijackers from execution in Russia...
...white singer ever has. Her life, too, contained generous portions of disorder and early sorrow. In her native Port Arthur, Texas (pop. 56,000), a staid Gulf Coast city dominated by the oil refineries that employed her father, she was an awkward child, part tomboy, part appassionata manqué. Save for a brief stint as a cherubic church soprano, she was an outcast, a rebel against conventions both adult and preadolescent. "They put me down, man, those square people in Port Arthur," she later told an interviewer. "And I wanted them so much to love...
...cope with this phenomenon better than almost any urban university in the country. The original City College of New York-then known as the Free Academy-was founded in 1847 to let "the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect." "City" fulfilled its charter by schooling waves of immigrant youths, especially Jews, who were barred by many private colleges of the time. From the 1920s on, the "proletarian Harvard" produced more students who went on to doctorates than any other U.S. college...