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Word: saves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other than signaling the beginning of its campaign against Galante, the DEA may have been interested in pushing the story for another reason: to save itself from extinction. Early last month Attorney General Griffin Bell, noting that he considered drugs "the biggest crime problem in America," announced that he was looking into the possibility of dismantling the agency, an arm of the Justice Department, and letting the FBI alone handle narcotics investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Cigar for the Mafia | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...common notion that truth is stranger than fiction, for the outlandish twists and turns of Cussler's novel would defy detection by even the most dogged Woodstein. Loosely translated, the book is the inspirational saga of how a top-secret group of brilliant government physicists devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high-school chemistry textbooks, traces the world's only supply of the element to the cargo hold of the sunken Titanic, miraculously raises the hulk from the depths...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Sinking a Bestseller | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

...that were all the reason I had for sitting and writing, I would stop now and save my reader the reading time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teacher's Fear | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...deadlock as the iceman failed to capitalize on a high sticking penalty called on Cornell's Fred Tomsic at 17:31. George Hughes's blast was off the mark and when he did put the puck on net, Napier came up with a sprawling kick save...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Red Humbles Skaters Once Again, 6-2 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

...dilemma is that you all expect me to write controversial stuff all the time now and save the witty comments for my lunch buddies in Quincy House that can stand listening...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: So You Wanted Controversy? | 2/23/1977 | See Source »

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