Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate. On her island she would be confined to an "apartment' until the "final disposition of her case...
...Schmeling, who had been seized with an idea for "re-educating the youth of Germany," was told by the British Control Commission to save his strength...
Quisling's voice dropped to a whisper and there was a glint of cunning in his eyes. He had only wanted, he said, to save Norway from a British attack...
Knee-deep in Louisiana oil and politics, he and Huey Long used to get together for talkfests that often lasted until 4 a.m. Then Helis got interested in racing. He laid $525,000 on the line to save New Orleans' Fair Grounds track from being auctioned. Because fashionable stables bypassed the Fair Grounds for the Florida and California tracks, he decided to stock the Fair Grounds with fast horses...
Died. Vice Admiral Willis Augustus ("Ching") Lee Jr., 57, Commander Battleships Pacific, who helped save the Guadalcanal invasion in 1942 by running his battleships past the P-T-boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...