Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce to war in Europe. The Dictator pledged, "To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience." This of course was topped with the characteristic Mussolini smash, "to military sanctions we shall answer with...
...Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion. He had no success whatever in official [British] quarters, but he does seem to have inspired a certain amount of 'publicity...
...week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter the Citizen printed this note: At our regular rate of $3.50, any disgruntled reader may have his own particular doorknob meticulously ostracized from the Citizen's delivery system for 52 weeks-a cost less than...
...when I realize it comes from the official representatives of the Government of the United States, I say that if that represents their conception of official duty and their temper toward citizens, then on bended knee I pray, 'God save the SEC and the people of these United States.' " Lawyer Davis requested that the charges of the Administration's three representatives be placed in permanent court records as a horrible example...
...does not happen in the less spacious parking streets of Cambridge. If the Apted men can enforce the present ban, certainly with the help of a few marking lines on the pavement, they could cannot ensure the ban, which is the more likely story, they might as well save themselves their much-demanded time and effort...