Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honorary degree, along with Field Marshal .Viscount Montgomery, at Cambridge, the Public Orator said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will for the success of all." His tact, humor and sincerity prompted a British novelist to say: "No American visiting this country has had his unfailing gift of saying the right thing at the right time...
...take over on their opponents' 20. A pass from Bob Curley to right end Marshall provided their lone touchdown, with the same combination repeating for the extra point. In the waning minutes of the game, Dudley began to click on the offense, but it was too late to save...
...report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...
Religious Frustration. Here I reach the point I dread, where the objection is raised: of course, politics will never save Europe. Who ever thought it would? Basically, the problem is spiritual. How about the moral reinvigoration of Europe by religion? Well, that is what I have been looking for over here, and there isn't any. That statement could be made more diplomatically. . . . But it is true as it stands...
...load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right behind the lines. Experts agreed that only a miracle could save the farmers of southern Brazil. But cariocas were confident that the locusts would not come to Rio, because there (said they) everybody has to stand in line to get anything...