Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like New York, youngsters are thrown daily into seething currents that begin beyond their ken and frequently sweep beyond their depth. Shouldered into canyons created by bleak, impenetrable tenements of brownstone and iron, shifting across noisy pavements before the exhaust-spewing lines of cars and trucks, they battle to save themselves from anonymity and the apathy of their elders. They form clubs or they run in gangs, and some learn to gamble with violence as quickly as they learn to step out of the path of cars. Roaming the parks and roads, scavenging for pride, for some kind of self...
...With the old place back on her feet again," said one Billingsgate porter who had fought to save All Hallows from 1940's fire bombs, "now you really know the war's over...
...turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will be one hour or one year ahead. In the process they have spawned a booming young business of 29 independent firms and some 600 private meteorologists, whose gross this year will top $15 million and whose forecasts will save U.S. industry an estimated $200 million...
...trace of it. When he took leave of two of his children and intimates, his courtesy won the admiration of his jailers, and when the exiled Prince of Wales (Charles II of the Restoration) sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father's life, and a similar document to Charles, the King tossed it into the fire. Always a religious man, he found comfort in the thought that he would soon be with Christ, and always a meticulous one, he dressed for his execution as if for an occasion...
...tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine and invader, and sometimes the more complicated tragedy of their collusion. Such a story is Lost Sister, a tale of a captured white child who became a squaw and sacrificed her life to save her half-Indian son from the U.S. Cavalry. Only in the one long story of the collection, The Hanging Tree, does the anticipatory whir of film cameras rise above the true sounds of prairie and frontier town...