Word: save
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...side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production would rise...
...their injured horses and to yank their own aching teeth. The Indians soon discovered that the hospital could be useful, too. When a Navajo dies at home, tribal custom decrees that his hogan (hut) must be burned. By hurrying a dying relative to the hospital, the Navajos learned to save their hogans...
King: "Mr. Antonescu. For the four years you have been usurping my rights, you have had neither my confidence nor sympathy. For months I have been working with the opposition to save my country. You, I know, consider me a stupid, stammering child. My Rumanians will judge that. But if you consider me to be a traitor, you will be completely disillusioned. I am the King of my country and your King. I wish to save the country and [shouting and'thumping the table] nobody can prevent...
...Britain's music halls, 49-year-old Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie explained from...
...would be pretty rough, to put it mildly. For the New Testament, this world, societies, and indeed life itself, are but a temporary experience. Moreover, the success of the Christian Church and the validity of its faith does not depend and never has depended on its ability to save societies or prevent physical death. The Church did not save Roman Society, but it saved Romans who were in a doomed society; the Church did not save Feudal Society, but it saved men and women who were in Feudal Society. There is no guarantee that the Church can or will save...