Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out. A distant cannon boomed the hour of noon. From the bell tower fell the slow notes of God Save the King. The crowd stood motionless; until the last echo died there was no movement but the slow swell of the flags...
...This will not only save fuel, but will provide self-reliance and make Bowser students a hardier and more resourceful race...
...They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
Penicillin, the wonder drug of 1943, last week made headlines up & down the nation. Newspapers reported a wave of frantic appeals for the drug by blood-poisoning sufferers who suddenly learned that 1) penicillin might save their lives, 2) there was not enough to go around...
Most moving plea was by comely, 19-year-old Marie Barker, of Chicago, who wrote Eleanor Roosevelt: "Won't you ask the Army to send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...