Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy," he keep saying as trainer Jimmy Cox mopped the eye with wet towels. He found out 20 minutes later on the emergency operation table at Massachusetts General Eye and Ear Infirmary. It took surgeons two hours to pick particles of plastic out of Busch's left eye--and save his sight...
...were they of the party? Only in order not to lose their positions and to save their families. . . We undertook all that we could to get our teachers again, but the law was against right. Now we have got new teachers who were never teachers before and mostly big Nazis in the Third Retch. But they were not in the Party! I can say to you that this is a great evil...
...severest punishment, even to the extent of being boiled in oil or having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...
...soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
...region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools of law, commerce and engineering, raised enrollments from 97 to 410. After he died, five years later, the college bracketed his name with that of the first...