Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockholm with U.S. Minister Herschel Johnson and Iver Olson, representative of Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board in Sweden. Olson and Johnson put the mission to Wallenberg simply: Would he go to Budapest as a member of the neutral Swedish-legation staff and, using U.S. funds, try to save Hungary's remaining 300,000-odd Jews (prewar Hungarian Jewish population: 800,000) from Nazi gas chambers or slave-labor camps? Wallenberg was warned that if the Germans or the Hungarian puppet government learned of his work, nothing could be done to save him. "If I can help," said...
...varsity fencing team rolled up an impressive 18-9 win over M.I.T. last night, in spite of two last-minute changes in the starting lineup. Both Mike Woolf and Don Tingle fell ill barely an hour before the match, but coach Edo Marion's substitutes managed to save the sabre...
...mile after mile along the main roads, outposts of frightened men in a teeming darkness of shadowy figures and shadowy hate. One such guard tower was a central factor in Graham Greene's Quiet American, a semi-novel purporting to display the hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem where they had failed, whispered...
...desolate gorge of the Columbia River 85 miles upstream from Portland, Ore., a rescue party was working last week to save one of the most interesting relics of America's distant past. Water, backed up by the great new dam at The Dalles, will soon cover the strange rock carvings in Petroglyph Canyon. No one knows who carved the animals, sunbursts and strange, maplike designs in the hard basalt, or when or why they did it. But the fascinating mystery will never be solved if deep water is permitted to cover the evidence...
...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...