Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody fought to save his own skin: the English to save England, De Gaulle to save France-his alter ego. I can see nothing reprehensible today in his desire not to let himself and the French be pasteurized, sterilized and homogenized. Anyway, that's the way they feel about...
Once upon a time, when both morals and money were harder, bankruptcy was bad. Wastrels used to be bailed out by their better-off relations in order to save the family name from the stigma. But in these days of looking-glass economics, bankruptcy is growing more and more fashionable as a way to settle one's debts and land some more credit...
Canadian lumbermen using lower-cost foreign ships walked away with U.S. lumbermen's East Coast business, and Canadian softwood lumber exports to Puerto Rico have increased seventyfold since 1951 while the Pacific Northwest's share shriveled to nothing. Finally, in a desperation move to save the lumber industry, Congress last year amended the Jones Act to allow lumber to go to Puerto Rico on foreign bottoms for a one-year trial period...
Piggyback by Sea. Some shipowners argue pessimistically that nothing can save the coastwise fleet from extinction; others, insisting that it must be saved for reasons of national defense, advocate direct Government subsidies. But more than half the U.S. ships in overseas trade are already on subsidy to the tune of $300 million to keep them competitive with low-wage foreign flag vessels, and that has not prevented a steady decline in the fleet-from 933 to 542 in ten years...
...each other than to the rivalry between the two continent-states. Eastern Europe has been swallowed and digested by the monster in the East. But the monster in the West has allowed the Western Europeans to determine their own destiny, and they have done so by joining together to save what is left of Europe from complete disappearance. So far, the United States has resisted the temptation to accord to Western Europe the treatment given to Eastern Europe--a process known as Stalinization. But the U.S. has the power to Stalinize Western Europe, if it insists...