Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another bench sat a boy about 13, naked save for a pair of drawers. Over his body were red scars where he'd been burned. Our medics had no salve for burns with them, so the boy sat there, shivering from head to foot and in great pain...
...know on the way and so am forced to put it off." Problem in Selection. Sonya Shostakovich's maternal solicitude for Mitya, who was a frail youth afflicted with tuber ulosis, bordered on mania. "Suppose the ceiling of our house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya and your husband were drowning," she used to ask threateningly of bewildered Aunt Nadejda, "which...
...planes. On the fourth trip the Alchiba got it. Loaded with aviation gasoline, ammunition and bombs, she was riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
...Naked, save for shoes and dog' tags, the men clumped down the stairs to the first floor of the barracks, where the doctors were waiting. The medical team peered and prodded each man as he filed past. These were hard-bellied soldiers, tanned and toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...
...none other than the Nazi who caused his crash, he jumps a German plane, quite naturally shoots the Nazi down. When the in-flying American has a hell of a time convincing British authorities by radio that he is not a Nazi, Doctor Annabella is luckily on deck to save the situation. It is a busy picture, relieved by moments of unconscious humor. Good shot: a plane swooping down on a lone parachutist, as seen from the pilot's seat...