Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...logical man for such support. Although he has never before run for office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...
Last week, after 17 years, she finally got him, back again. Adolf still couldn't speak English, still looked bewildered. Beaming, Anna cried: "I'll have to work and save money and get him a couple of acres in the country, that's all. He likes fruit trees." Adolf beamed...
...China faced a prospect so bitter. The Communist autumn offensive had overwhelmed the Nationalists in Manchuria; the vital North China corridor was under heavy attack. For the second time in a generation, a great Nationalist retreat was under way. Isolated outposts would now be evacuated and lines shortened to save men and materiel for a long war of attrition...
...Eyed Dragon. To the south, Communist forces closed in for the kill on rich Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province. Like Mukden ,Taiyuan has an excellent arsenal. During the last Communist attack on Taiyuan some months ago, Nationalist airborne reinforcements came in to save the day. This time it looked as if the outnumbered 40,000-man garrison would have to fight it out alone...
Psychiatry, says Dr. Will sensibly, cannot save the world all by itself. He has no patent psychiatric pills for ending war, or meeting the threat of the atomic bomb-or even for getting children to stop biting their nails. But the world, he thinks, would be a better place to live in if people were healthier in their minds. Spreading the word.about psychiatry-to folks who need it, and to doctors who don't know much about it-is a job that Dr. Will finds well worth doing...