Word: save
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...
...Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
There must be some reasons for this determination on the part of a squad which has faced superior and faster personnel on every Saturday afternoon save one--and on at least two occasions has realized beforehand that victory was all but impossible, or as much out of the question as victory over can be in college football...
Nine fire trucks were on the scene within two minutes and quickly put out the blaze before much damage was done to a nearby wall. The fire caused confusion as students rushed to save trunks stored in the basement rooms...
Tight Harvard defensive play and a spectacular last-minute save by goalie Dick Craven gave the Crimson booters a 0 to 0 tie against Brown on the Business School Field Saturday, after a fast and rugged Bruin halfback line had throttled Coach Bruce Munro's forward line all afternoon...