Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Save Eyesfrain." A month ago, Mrs. Woodward founded the Little Below the Knee Club and sent out a call to battle. The response was tremendous. By last week, the club had members in all the 48 states, in Canada and Alaska. In Dallas alone, 1,300 women signed up. San Antonio L.B.K.s issued a war cry: "The Alamo fell, but our hemlines will...
Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...
...Dollars to Save Britain." The story of this calamity-one of the most important events of the postwar world-begins two years ago when Lord Keynes came to the U.S. to talk about getting dollars to save Britain. Keynes started with the idea that nothing less than 5 billion dollars would prime the pump; even that would have to be protected by special restrictions against seepage. The American negotiators told him he was wrong; they said 3.75 billion was enough, and that Britain, in .the interests of freer world trade, would have to throw away protective restrictions. The British, having...
King Michael: "There is no time to lose. In spite of the representations I have made to you, you have brought the country to a situation from which only immediate cessation of hostilities and expulsion of the Germans can save...
Antonescu: "I wish to tell you that you are mistaken if you think you can save the country by an armistice...