Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...Hammond was in a tight spot. Adventurous Ham, who had rocketed to the planet Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...
...current U.T. double feature bears out admirably the popular notion that Hollywood's most widely publicized pictures are often its worst. All the publicity in the world can't save "Mother Is A Freshman." "Act of Violence," left to survive on its own merits, is a good melodrama, the strength of which lies in the conflict between the two principals and the resulting suspense...
Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...
Having made a specialty of the subject, the authors have acquired a certain affection for bad smells. They tell with considerable sympathy how smelly chemicals often save human lives. For example, when a mine has an accident, the operators often dump ethyl mercaptan (which smells like rotting cabbage, garlic, onions and sewer gas) into its air supply. The awful stench circulates quickly through every passage and forcefully warns the miners to run for their lives...