Word: saver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find U.S. oil know-how and oil capital useful-if only a way could be figured to save the face he must turn to his anti-gringo voters. One such face-saver would be a public admission on U.S. oilmen's part that they could have behaved more simpaticamente toward Mexico in the past, are resolved to do better in the future...
Administration Senators found a face-saver for him. On the objection of Georgia's Senator Russell that he had said "aye" but that his vote had not been heard and counted, the Senate this week voted to correct the "journal," mark the bill as passed by a vote of 33-to-32. But this retroactive rescue was slight consolation for dutiful, downcast Mr. Wallace...
Although denying rumors that he was 72, but admitting that he was over 21, the genial officer was proud to say that he was still young enough to act as a Red Cross Senior life-saver at the Medford lake during the summer...
...which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist, and put Field Marshal Hermann Göring in. Effusiveness of the praise which was given Herr Funk made it look suspiciously as if he was being eased out, and given credit as a face-saver...