Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British First and the French First, Seventh and Ninth Armies had been destroyed, save for 337,000 beaten men evacuated from Dunkirk; in 1944, the German Seventh Army of up to 500,000 had been destroyed, kit & kaboodle...
...would have turned out a film to tingle the spines of audiences in every corner of the globe, but Hitchcock did not direct this one and it shows it. Even luscious Barbara Stanwyck, a new and surprisingly good Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson at his best fail to save "Double Indemnity" from the bottomloss list of Hollywood's fumbled chances...
Said a Frenchman: "Vichy? It is a basket of crabs." Petty officials spent their time compiling dossiers on each other, hoping that they could save themselves by betraying their colleagues to the liberating Allies. One thick accusation by X against Y reached London on the same day as a bulgy dossier by Y against...
...deliberately artificial, packed with wit, rarely dull. Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...
...meeting last Thursday night, the Social Service Committee decided to begin a study to find how the Harvard student can help save "disintegrating family groups" broken up by the war. The study is connected with the practical activities of the committee and will draw on the experience which the members acquire in their social work...