Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three decades, until Herbert Hoover laid her up to save money, presidential guests marveled at the Mayflower's black bathtub, carved from a single block of Italian marble (it was too small for outsize William Howard Taft). The Mayflower burned and sank in 1931, was salvaged, served in World War II as a Navy and Coast Guard training ship...
...above matters. . . . Inasmuch as so great a part of the world's future well-being depends on the amicability of Russian-American relations, wouldn't it be wise to reserve a less glittering, more thoroughly documented, more restrained style of reporting for use on the Russians, and save your piercing wit for your targets elsewhere...
Unmarked by war save for a barbed-wire fence along its eastern frontier to keep war criminals out, the peewee principality of Liechtenstein (area 65 sq. mi., pop. 11,500) last week coasted calmly into the problems of peace. No invader had threatened its soil or sovereignty, but new ideas had spilled over from neighboring Italy, Austria, Switzerland...
...stone steps, the tall, booted, hawk-nosed Earl watched a company of soldiers, sailors and airmen click to "present arms," heard a military band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...
When a connecting road is constructed from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Pan American Highway running through Mexico, Williams will operate a ferry between Cuba and Puerto Morelos. U.S. motorists from the eastern seaboard who want to go to Mexico City would save 800 miles of driving by taking the Cuba-Mexico auto ferry...