Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guadalcanal had been costly to take.* To capitalize on Guadalcanal was going to be costly too, but worth the price if air assault can neutralize Jap bases, save the expense and delay of occupation by sea and land forces...
...first days he took only citrus juice and water. Midway through his ordeal the act of drinking water exhausted him. A panel of nine doctors announced that Gandhi's "uremic condition deepens and if his fast is not ended without delay it may be too late to save his life." He was too far gone for blood transfusions or glucose injections to be of help. Government bulletins prepared Indians for news of his death. Only a body and a will that have survived a lifetime of fasts and jailings kept Gandhi alive...
Finland, now allied with the Axis against Britain and Russia, bet on an Allied victory this week. An almost unanimous vote by 300 electors gave an emergency two-year term to incumbent President Risto Ryti, who last fortnight appealed to the U.S. to save Finland from the consequences of Axis defeat (TIME...
...wreckage, Finland is trying to save the tenuous thread of relations with its old and powerful friend, the U.S. The Finns hope that the end of their long road of misery will at least find Nazi troops gone and no Russian troops replacing them...
...Young set out to defeat the ICC plan and thus save his own hide. Campaigner Young's battle cry: the plan is based on the "Dust Bowl" earnings of 1933-it must be changed. Charged tough, senior Bondholder Spokesman John Weiss Stedman: the-arguments are wholly fallacious . . . the proposals "are a tax-avoidance scheme...