Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none has made aggressive sweeps toward our aircraft. In the time we have been near the target we have seen only a few phosphorus shells from land-based flak batteries and a few tracers from small warships in the harbor but none came close. . . . They could not save this northern Honshu shipping center [Aomorí] even though they knew 24 hours in advance [see above] that we were going to burn it to the ground...
...incredible things about Americans, according to the Japanese, is the great trouble and expense they endure to rescue one man. But to Americans a comrade's life is more than a unit of supply. To save a life they frequently tie up many valuable ships, daily risk planes and submarines. Some recent examples...
Winston Churchill, who had seemed invincible in the gratitude of the nation he had just helped so greatly to save, kept his own seat in Commons. But he saw ten thousand of the 38,000 electors in his constituency (Woodford, Essex) plump for a candidate of the lunatic fringe Alexander (farmer) Hancock. A more definite gesture of personal repudiation was scarcely possible...
...Save Lives. The Minnesota study is one of several experiments being performed with C.O.s under the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development and the U.S. Surgeon General's Office. Over 300 other C.O.s have volunteered for a wide variety of special projects "to help science save lives." In New Hampshire a group of 35 did road work for three-week stretches in louse-infested clothes, to permit studies which played a part in the development of DDT, the powder which saved bombed Naples from a typhus epidemic (TIME, Jan. 10, June 12, 1944). Five other C.O.s spent days...
...costumes have a more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real personality...