Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pistol. When the ammunition got low, he went back through enemy fire for more. When the Japs gave it up, there were 38 dead in front of just one of John Basilone's emplacements. He and his handful of survivors had virtually annihilated a Jap regiment, had helped save Henderson Field...
...Russians: Time. By refusing credits, the U.S. would delay Russian reconstruction and growth. During 20 years between wars Russia pared her slender standard of living to save enough to build an industrial machine. Now much of it has been destroyed and will have to be rebuilt -from the scorched earth up. By pulling in her belt again, Russia can in time make or get elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years...
...first time, the Moscow radio had a good word to say about the Catholic Church: its Italian priests deserved praise for their "patriotic and democratic activity ... to save the world from a new catastrophe." Not to be outdone, Rome nodded approvingly at Soviet notions of morality: "The Vatican," reported Rome's Tribuna del Popolo, "has not hidden its pleasure over the fact that Soviet films present a standard of morality much higher than films of other nations. . . . This is among consoling indications . . . that the Church may soon resume its spiritual activity in Russia...
...Think I'm Going to Save Him." I went back through the dark to the No. 1 cistern. On Dr. Silvis' operating table was the same dirty-faced private who had been fed blood through the femoral veins...
...smoking a cigaret now. Dr. Silvis said: "I put lipstick on him" - meaning that color had returned. He added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...