Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive has discontinued its dawn patrols of the Charles riverbank...
...patrols of "Minutemen"--from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.--were begun in early November to save trees lining Memorial Drive near the Lars Anderson Bridge from destruction by the Metropolitan District Commission. The MDC, which will build three underpasses along the Drive, plans to move some of the trees and cut down others to make room for the underpass at Boylston...
That sounds, of course, like a call for a complete U.S. retreat. But Lippmann has a fall-back plan that might not save face but will keep some troops nearby. "To promote the eventual negotiation," he wrote last June, it should be made clear "that it is not our intention to withdraw and wash our hands. It is no less essential to make military dispositions in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which make it clear that when our troops withdraw from the mainland, the American presence will remain...
...began to bluster off the Hudson, Ben Joe Hawkes just stood in bed, cutting law-school classes and thinking of North Carolina in the morning. Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that in the hearts...
...France's famed Normandie, chief competitor of Britain's Queens for transatlantic honors in the 1930s, who in 1942 stood on a Manhattan pier as the ship burned and finally capsized, crying in vain to police holding him back that he alone had the knowledge to save the vessel; of cancer; in Yonkers...