Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your account of the P.O.W.s having their daily apple-picking quotas reduced because of their sit-down strike and general naughtiness, while being used in an effort to save the apple crop of Washington (TIME, Nov. 13), caused great resentment here...
...most qualified to dispel the world's doubts about the U.S.'s intentions had spoken up. U.S. Senators who believe in international participation by the U.S., many of whom could scarcely believe their ears, were amazed and, generally, pleased. U.S. press reaction was also favorable-save for the grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course of events." John Foster Dulles, internationalist...
Forthwith the Army dropped 54 items from the WAC menu, thought it could save $2,700,000 on its food bill...
...were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary, had growled: "We don't care if ten Budapests are destroyed, provided we can save one Vienna...
...story in it is the use that Harg makes of his discovery. Success inspired him; because he had made one discovery, the world became filled with possibilities where it had held only menace before. Because the women looked to him confidently, expecting him to save them in each crisis of attack or hunger, he was driven to superhuman feats of courage and ingenuity. To make a home, he drove a bear from a cave in the cliffs. He killed a mammoth caught in a pit by building a fire around...