Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case. A good private tutor is a more costly form of education than even that of Eton. I should know, for I was educated by the former and my brother at the latter, and I cost my father a great deal more with probably less to show for it save for a sound taste in wines and fast cars...
...yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved-it talked. From its depths came kicks, wriggles, and a sepulchral voice pleading "Aiutatemi! Salvatemi!" (Help me! Save me!). Porter Mario Colelli, who was loading freight into the rear baggage compartment of United Arab Airlines flight 784 to Cairo, recalls, "It was good Italian, real Italian Italian. Suddenly, I thought, 'My God, this is an Italian, and these Arabs are kidnaping him-some political fellow or something. Who knows what they'll do to him down there in Cairo...
...went beyond high school. As a youth in Indianapolis, he rose before dawn to carry the Star, delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis in 1905, but when Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch did not promote him rapidly enough to suit him, Roy Howard, then 22, quit...
While botanists were examining the identity of the trees that must be moved, Edward L. Bernays, chairman of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, was delighted that "confusion about what they are may bring greater interest in saving the trees...
...Miss Schubert said, "It matters little whether we 'Bolster the Buttonwood,' 'Preserve the Planes,' or 'Save the Sycamores' so long as the trees of Platanus along Memorial Drive are protected...