Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since the paper was born to shimmy with the Moscow line, the Communist Party has huffed, puffed and passed the hat repeatedly to save Manhattan's Daily Worker from folding. Last week the party tried for the first time to fold the Worker deliberately-and found to its chagrin that the hardy little rag kept right on coming...
John Hammond, Crimson butterfly swimmer who has shown considerable improvement so far this year, and free-styler Tom Cochran both have post-vacation colds that will sideline them for the Penn meet. Ulen stated that he wanted to save them for later meets...
...states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from...
Losers for the seventh time in eight, and with only pride at stake, the U.S. tennists went back on the courts for the final singles matches, and fought hard to save themselves from an embarrassing shutout. Seixas outlasted Anderson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 0-6, 13-11, and MacKay, no longer bothered by cup competition jitters, beat back Cooper, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Said happy Harry Hopman: "You may consider my grip on the Davis Cup slippery." Somehow he managed to say it with a straight face...
...James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional election-brings in a crack assistant from the attorney general's staff at the state capital. To save his client, Biegler has only his own wits, the assistance of an able but often drunk colleague, and a secretary given depressingly to imitating the wisecracks in an Erie Stanley Gardner mystery...