Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this deadlock the nation made various frantic efforts to save itself...
Chen pointed out that the key problem in the Chinese mind today is how to save the country. "The Chinese desire above all a government that can guard their recently hard-won freedom... a government that will provide adequate national defense, for they know very well that national weakness has always been a standing invitation to agression...
WASHINGTON, December 8--John L. Lewis today was found guilty of criminal contempt of court--with a possible heavy sentence--but the coal strike went on and the Government took drastic emergency action to save fuel by rising in the Federal courtroom and making a bitterly deflant speech. He accused the judge of depriving the coal minors of their constitutional rights. He said he would "firmly stand" on his position...
Characterizing himself a as "conservative Christian anarchist," Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of sociology, in last night's Forum on "Are We Going to the dogs?" prescribed fundamental social, cultural, and economic reorganization of himself as the remedy that will save the Western World from its plunge toward social and cultural degeneracy...
...Temple. Even Japanese who found shelter had little warmth. American Army blankets sold for $66 on the Tokyo black market. Emperor Hirohito, democratically trying to get along on the same rations as his people shivered in his chilly palace, warmed only by a few small electric "bugs." To save coal, railway officials planned to silence train whistles; more wistfulness than thermodynamics went into their estimate of 100 tons a day thus saved. Tokyo newspapers sadly reported a touching little story which underlined the clothing shortage: seven small children playing in a temple compound were approached by a middle-aged...