Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief objected: "that's all very well. But Victoria was a queen. This woman is only a woman. What has a woman ever done to save a nation...
...midafternoon one company had worked its way ahead through a field and come in sight of its immediate objective. It was a long concrete fort, ringed with mines and dominating a ridge barring the way to Cherbourg. There the battalion used time and metal to save men. Instead of assaulting the fort, the commander called for drenching artillery and mortar fire, then sifted his infantry in cautiously to clear up what resistance was left...
Even the applicants were caught off guard by CAB's sudden announcement. U.S. airmen scurried to get ready for the hearings. To save time, CAB will group hearings according to routes-e.g., if ten airlines have applied for the New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon-London route, a joint hearing will be held for all. Sidetracking inevitable catfights, CAB will grant franchises on two basic points: 1) the "fitness, willingness and ability" of the applicant; 2) whether the traffic can bear the operation of more than one line to a route. Established domestic carriers will have good talking points...
...Italy the 162nd Turkoman Infantry -former Russian prisoners officered by Germans-was fighting to help save Kesselring's army. Almond-eyed, some with pigtails, they had belonged to crack Red Army Siberian divisions, now were obviously helping the Germans for a meal ticket...
...Endeavor. "In candor," writes Lasch, "redress cannot be expected from a revival of competition. The clock does not turn back. Having survived one era of jungle warfare, and facing now a new kind of rivalry in radio, the newspapers will not tolerate a further division of the spoils. And save for a few venturesome souls, the prospective rewards are unlikely to attract new enterprisers...