Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because they knew the right people...
Black Thursday is July 16, 1942, the day most Parisian Jews were deported to the extermination camp at Auschwitz. Christian Rich plays Paul, an aristocratic young gentile student who hopes to use his advance warning of the deportation to save as many Jews as possible. On the morning of the deportation, he visits the Jewish quarters on the right bank to alert Jews to the enormity of their peril, to persuade them to hide and to offer them shelter on the left bank. Incredulity, confusion, fear and family solidarity conspire to prevent Jews from following Paul's advice: as French...
...connected with the museum viewed unfavorably: placing the archives in Cambridge and taking over a portion of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for a memorial museum. This plan never had a chance. Administrators at both the Kennedy Center and the library opposed it. To save the archives, the University would have had to come up with its own plan, possibly favoring a nearby Watertown site for the entire complex, or offering to subsidize construction of the archives here. But it instead rejected taking a dynamic role in the decision process and relied on the vain...
Until recently the Chinese community could take care of itself. Before 1949, many Chinese hoped merely to save enough money to go home, and afterwards, local benevolent associations handled most immigrants' problems. But when Congress abolished the national origins quota in 1965, a deluge of immigrants from Hong Kong soared to a level which now exceeds the communities' capacity to deal with them, but the Chinese still remain one of the least heard or noticed American minorities...
...under the tutorial eye of presidential Photographer David Kennerly. Susan may be learning her craft more quickly than anyone realizes. As reporters clustered around the President at the close of his remarks, one onlooker jokingly suggested that Ford economize by firing Kennerly and hiring Susan. "That wouldn't save much," she shot back between pictures. "I don't come cheap." Her reputation thus defended, she boarded the presidential yacht Sequoia the following night to photograph the first floating Cabinet meeting on record. "That was longer than Gone With the Wind," remarked Actress Joanne Woodward following a film tribute...