Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the world was already starving for such a gospel. So gifted and disarming a preacher was all that was needed. But it was not enough, as it turned out, to help the world to save itself from disaster...
...move would save Canada around $12,000,000 annually-money which would have been paid to the delinquents (as clothing allowances, discharge pay, etc.) after their capture and punishment. But to some Canadians, that seemed small compensation. Said the conservative Toronto Globe & Mail: "Villainy. . . [The] Government has irreparably injured the moral fabric of this country. . . It has yielded to the temptation of the lowest sort of political expediency. The Government has forgiven the deserters. Who will forgive the Government...
...obediently purged her dance group of Jews. Says she: "We did everything we could to save our little candle light for the day when we could build a great, warming fire." Even so, two years later the Goebbels press decided that her kind of dancing was "modern degeneracy." She was chased out of Berlin, but the Nazis-torn between using her prestige and denouncing her art-allowed her to carry on a school in Dresden...
Some girls save ticket stubs as reminders of pleasant evenings at the theatre, other people buy glossy brochures from lobby hawkers describing intimate facts and figures of dramatists, many Harvard men have only pleasant memories of time spent in Howardian delight; but the University knows no bounds in its mementoes of theatrical history...
...sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...