Word: save
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...this state, the physician is forbidden to give contraceptive help but paradoxically is permitted to resort to more extreme measures to save the life of a mother," he added...
During last fall's gubernatorial campaign, Volpe suggested that the MDC re-examine plans for the underpasses with an eye towards preserving "the now famous sycamore trees." He said that the access routes to the Boylston St. underpass might be eliminated to save the trees. It is conceivable, therefore, that Whitmore might undertake a new study of the underpasses before approving final plans...
Plywood is migrating South partly to save freight (the South is nearer to most markets than the Northwest) and partly to take advantage of the South's rising supply of available timber, but it is a new technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...
...Josephus was a turncoat. During the savage Roman-Jewish war that destroyed the Jewish state and scattered its people around the world, Josephus expediently forsook his Jewish citizenship to become a Roman. In countless apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince his countrymen that their defeat was inevitable. Later, as a court favorite in Rome, he turned out voluminous histories extolling the grandeur of the Roman Empire. But while rendering unto Caesar, he was a lucid, readable historian, whose chronicles are packed with largely reliable political and social detail...
Three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks, one rescue squad, and a deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department rallied to save Quincy House from major damage yesterday evening after flames crept through a three-cushion couch in a sixth-story room...