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Word: rescuer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men y. Mountains | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Man Overboard | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Success Story | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles River Tonic Packs Pickup | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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