Word: savingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...there in the first place. Now that they are there, protecting them becomes in itself a basis of new policy, the justification for almost any other actions the President may wish to take in the war. By going into Cambodia, Nixon explained on April 30, he was acting to save the lives of "our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world"-an aim that has not been literally realized, since 339 Americans died in the Cambodian venture. If saving lives is the ultimate end of his policy, then sheer logic would decree that the best...
Last fall the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence painted an eerie picture of the urban future: downtown areas deserted after dark save for police patrols, apartment buildings ringed by private guards, whole cities terrified of strangers and infused with a fortress mentality. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, that future is closer at hand than anyone imagined. Banks and department stores are building inside parking garages to reduce muggings of nighttime workers. Downtown restaurants and theaters are closing early for lack of business. Vigilante groups and private security agencies are flourishing. Half the nation's 60 million...
...problems with the play can be surmounted with an underplayed production. O'Neill was at least making an effort in the play to deal comically with his favorite themes-the inadequacy of human communication and understanding, and the failure of language to save doomed people from their own self-destruction. Overplayed, however, the defects in the play, the dated language and Leave It To Beaver quality of most of the jokes become painfully obvious. The Loeb production overplays badly...
...around the Delta-a huge, fertile area of meandering waterways near San Francisco that is irrigated by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. This water will be pumped through nearly 700 miles of concrete aqueducts to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The diversion, say engineers, will save much of the river water that now flows through the Delta into San Francisco Bay and is lost to the ocean. All together, the vast network of canals, aqueducts, dams and pumping stations will extend along two-thirds of the state and constitute one of the most complex water delivery systems...
...would probably save yourself a lot of money if you stayed away from Krackerjack...