Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took notes. When he had finished, the Congressmen jubilantly announced that Chambers had given them enough work to keep busy for six months. There was ample reason, they concluded, to continue the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 81st Congress (where it would be under Democratic control). To save it from further public criticism of its methods, Republicans Mundt and Nixon proposed a few changes in procedure "which may have justified some honest criticism...
...mean Churchill who's going to save the United States by making us fight the next...
...tung was striving to ease the strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that production may be increased." Within Communist ranks, leaders announced "self-examination conferences" for "correction of leftist tendencies...
...case, the council's two-way verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...
...Juan is to save pretty Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors) and her slightly addled king (Romney Brent) from the plots of an evil Duke de Lorca. Errol manages it with the help of nothing more than fire, sword, galloping horses, conspiring friends, and a few scattered incidents when he is called upon to prove that his strength is as the strength of ten because his heart is afire with love for the queen. No question of credibility is really involved in all this, since the story at no time resembles any situation ever likely to have been faced by any human...