Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must devise a new strategy on the inflation line, and submit his 1944 budget. He must soothe ruffled feelings in WMC and WPB, and-eventually-venture into the hot race-relations fight between his Fair Employment Practice Committee and Southern railroads (see p. 18). He must also, incidentally, save his own party from breaking in two. And on the hottest of all issues, the soldiers' vote bill, he must work out some fruitful settlement with Congress as soon as possible...
...Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...
...Tough. Yet the enemy is better equipped than in the preceding two winters of disaster. Berlin has even claimed bravely: "German soldiers have conquered fear of cold and snow." But in Germany, the press pleaded with the butchers and farmers to save every single rabbit fur, to be sent to the Eastern Front for coats...
Plasma and extract mixed together can be used to save bloody stitches on a liver cut by a bullet, a blow or an operation. The doctors tried it on dog livers first, now use the method on people. The raw surfaces are painted with the mixture and held together about three minutes. Any spot still bleeding or unstuck is repainted. As with skin-grafting, results are 100% successful: "By the end of ten days, it is often difficult to find the line of incision without a microscope...
Germany. New Luftwaffe tactics again failed to halt U.S. daylight bombing or save the Germans from huge fighter losses...