Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thurston saw Martinez the day after the revolt, told him that the United Nations would judge him by his moderation. The dreaded Dictator did not reply. A few days later, the mother and sister of an arrested rebel begged the Ambassador to save his life. Thurston refused (with perfect correctness), adding that Martinez had assured him that there would be no executions. Screamed the sister: "Right now in the graveyard, men are being shot...
...Save or Destroy? Last week's hullabaloo from Moscow obscured the fact that Soviet Russia had lost a studied effort to settle the Finnish campaign without having to beat the Finns. Cabled Scott...
...four years contradictory charges have been made against me and the Committee . . . De Gaulle wanted to be a dictator, he wanted to restore the Third Republic ... he would deliver France to communism or that he was an instrument of the Americans, British or Stalin. I shall not reply save to say that the French would not accept a dictatorship, whether French or foreign. But the French want a government that governs...
...Appropriations Subcommittee asked, couldn't the Army and Navy get together to save some money? The Army was abandoning (partially or wholly) some 46 airfields or air facilities because Army Air Forces were undergoing a 20-30% training cut. Why couldn't the still-expanding Navy air arm use some of these facilities instead of building still others of its own? (Whitten: "We have just one country to foot the bill...
...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...