Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save some face, Khrushchev took full credit for preserving the peace of the world by dismantling the missiles. He also asked for a continued "exchange of opinions on the prohibition of atomic and thermonuclear weapons and on general disarmament and other questions connected with the lessening of international tension." And he said that Russia would continue to give aid to Cuba, which might mean that he had a lingering hope of still using the island as a base for Communist penetration of Latin America...
...will almost certainly win this election, is a political curiosity by any standards; few other senatorial candidates have been opposed by every major newspaper in the country immediately after announcing their intention to run. His immaturity, inexperience, disinclination to debate with his opponents or to run on any platform save his brother's are by now obvious facts...
...Look," D. H. Lawrence titled a collection of poetry after World War I, "we have come through." The subsiding of the Cuban crisis, along with America's apparent victory, has clearly created a feeling of relief here and throughout the country. Yet in fact the victory was nothing save a bright moment in our "long twilight struggle." The questions it raised, then, had best be examined before they are forgotten...
Conductor Bentley Layton chose a wise program for his chamber orchestra, and performed it with security, confidence, and a very welcome accuracy. Layton apparently did his work with the orchestra before the concert. Last minute attempts to save a sinking orchestra were totally absent from his podium performance; he infused the orchestral sound with the proper delicacy and care...
...They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice President, for instance, talks like a Greenwich Village grocer. "You want Ivy League manners," he tells the President...