Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article in your April 7 issue regarding Princeton's "Save Capitalism Committee" interested me, but I was annoyed at the implication that no other college had a similar organization...
...through an amendment permitting any local government to kill controls whenever it wished. Then a motion to send the whole bill back to committee was approved. But at the last minute, Majority Leader Charlie Halleck rushed to the chair to postpone announcement of the results, swung enough votes to save the bill...
Caen's Chronicle column got off to a slow start, for conservative San Franciscans whose names were newsworthy didn't like to make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...
...billion of unsold surpluses on hand. But he did not think much of this could be sold. His chances of selling much of what's left seem so poor that he plans to ask Congress to let him give it to public schools, or scrap it to save upkeep costs...
...with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...