Word: rescuer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...every other soul aboard, the sea seemed empty, but the ship swung into a figure eight. Suddenly all saw the wet and bobbing head of Tomas Montanez and watched a small boat put out to rescue him. He was almost unconscious; his rescuer had to seize his hair to keep him from sinking...
Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...
Swallowing a large dose of a salubrious river finds, she quickly recovered enough strength to attract a rescuer in a passing lobster-put poacher returning from the day's rounds...
Ding Dong Bell. Near Charles City, Iowa, the pussy that fell in the well kept 72-year-old would-be rescuer Mrs. Bert Dawley company until both were hauled out, damp but undamaged, 40 hours later...