Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...
...only the silhouette of A.C. was visible, but it was a striking silhouette. Its leaders claimed that it was purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...
...were taken regularly by our parents to the opera as part of our education, which was very rigid and very circumspect. We were never allowed to leave our seats ... to stroll in the lobby with our more sophisticated friends. We were never allowed to go into the refreshment room, save at Christmas time for a holiday...
...English" was really half Celt (on his mother's side)-and made a point of saying so when he was among Scots. "I remember that in my early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus...
...Century also disapproved of the chaplaincy in the armed services. The clergy should serve as chaplains but "be paid by the church, wear a uniform or garb distinctive of the church, accept no military rank and, beyond their civilian patriotism, own no allegiance save that to which they are solemnly committed in their ordination vows...