Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges, skirting the Russian strong points on the Caspian's narrow shore. If winter is all that Russia's allies can promise, and Russia cannot save herself, then the war in Russia is lost...
...slits swirls desert dust, caking on the sweating faces of the four crew members into a brown paste. Beads of sweat trickle down from under their leather helmets and goggles, curl around their noses and cheekbones. Even dust masks, that they wear to filter out the dust, do not save them from coughs and rasping "tank throat...
...last week told the Philadelphia mint to get going on new U.S. 5? pieces containing 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese-but no nickel. The current Jefferson head-and-home design will not be changed. Present coins are 25% nickel-75% copper, and the switch to new alloys will save about 850 tons of nickel and copper annually...
...California's rich valleys beet fields were plowed under and 4,000,000 pounds of sugar were lost every day for lack of workers. Growers begged for 30,000 extra men-cityfolk, school children, convicts, soldiers-to save grapes, pears and peaches from rotting...
...like waves of misery, used to follow the crops, has awakened too late to the fact that the Joads are immobilized by lack of tires or are abandoning their calling for lush war jobs; 2) next year will be even worse. This week the Government haltingly moved to save what could be saved. It rounded up 183 migrants in the Virginias, put them on buses and trains for New York orchards, looked for more recruits in Ohio and Tennessee. Next week it hoped it could begin importing 5000 Mexicans. Cost of these "pilot programs...