Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Philo, a young civilian employee of the Philco Corp., lost his balance, fell, and was gone. But the rest of the Cochino's peop^-five of them badly burned-managed to save themselves. Two minutes after her captain, Puerto Rico-born Lieut. Commander Rafael Benitez, leaped to safety, the Cochino plunged to the bottom...
...Washington next month a conference of the U.S., Britain and Canada will meet to see what can be done to save America's most important ally. What worried the U.S. as much as the prospect of Britain going bankrupt was the possibility that, in an effort to stave off bankruptcy, the British might withdraw into a tight autarchic sterling bloc which would in effect split the West...
...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...
...fought against Israel. Said a communique issued by Hennawi: "Zaim forgot his promises and started to extend his hands to the property of the nation and ... to prejudice the noble values of the country . . . The population began to ridicule the army. Depending on God, the army is determined to save [the country] from the tyrant. God has ensured what the army desired...
...there were other millions like Ah Teng. Red leaders in Hankow proclaimed flood relief along the Yangtze as the party's most urgent task. Red armies sloshed southward across swamped fields, heavy guns sinking into the mud. There were mass levies of peasants to shore up dikes and save the riceland. Seven women who each toted more than 70 crates of mud in a nightlong fight against the waters were acclaimed as "flood labor heroes...