Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three sons, Lieut. Francis Hugh Peter Wood, 26, was killed in Egypt last November. The U.S. would never have known, save for dispatches from London. Nor could anyone who met the British Ambassador last week, or worked with him at the Embassy, or watched him listen to the President's speech to Congress, have guessed that Lord Halifax had just learned that his youngest son, Lieut. Richard Frederick Wood, 22, had lost both legs when wounded by a Nazi bomb in Libya...
...much more from these figures. The WPA and the CCC, the Rural Electrification Commission and the National Youth Administration, are all officially dead. Finding other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering committee rooms...
...feature, "Over My Dead Body," if nothing else, makes the first film better appreciated. Milton Berle, acting the mental eagle (two below par), works his way into court as the defendant in a first degree murder charge. By stepping out of character at the last moment, he manages to save himself and disappoint an audience well content to see him "burn...
...unfamiliar with the ivy-covered folklore of the 300-years-old institution, he swung on his Freshman room-mate accusingly. "Did you ever liear of the old letter-carrier who used to climb across the roof from one entry of Matthews to the other as a short-cut to save steps?" he demanded. Upon the expected "no" Vag settled back and sighed unhappily...
...token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same year Adolf Hitler promised the German people...