Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left only ten minutes' gasoline. Then he looked down, saw three Zeros on the tail of his flight commander. Although he had no gasoline for a fight, although his decision could mean only death, Wilde dived on the leading plane, shot it down just in time to save his commander. The other two Zeros took after him, killed him over the mountains beyond Moresby...
Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
Wild Men. One icy night in 1830, Parisians, passing the famed Comédie- Françise, were terrified to see "a band, wild and bizarre, bearded, hairy, dressed in all fashions save the current ones." The strange creatures were yelling: "We are the Wild Men of art!" "We are the brigands of thought...
...testimony heaped before the long-suffering Small Business Committee last week: though for more than a year one war agency after another has wept and cried "Wolf" about how many little men were about to fold up because of the war, so far the agencies set up to "save" small business have shown much less staying power than their proteges. All the experts had to admit last week that no one yet knew the score on "business mortality," but what little they did know made it seem little if any worse than usual...
...best work during the German Wars of Liberation. Musical history seems to have developed steadily and independently of national upheavals, but there is no reason to suppose that composers live in an emotional vacuum. Good music may be "emotion recollected in tranquillity," but a composer has a skin to save, and knows the price which events place on the available peace of mind...