Word: save
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Tougher orders were in the works. Over the protests of the building industry, NPA was drawing up orders to limit construction of such "frivolous" enterprises as dance halls, nightclubs, race tracks and bowling alleys. The order, it was estimated, would save $500 million worth of steel, cement and other construction materials a year...
...depends on our making a stand and recklessly investing all our hopes and energies in [them]. The margin for error is narrowing with breathtaking rapidity. The time is coming when every citizen will have to ask himself at every hour of the day: Is what I am doing helping save the Republic...
...Napoleon's view, of course, it was the "logic" of France's condition, not his own ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man who could "save [society] from destruction." The best chapter in the Memoirs is devoted to the cunning, diplomacy and brute force employed by Napoleon in making quite sure that the inevitable occurred...
...liquids had their effect, and some escorts and escortees were reported to have driven back to Boston singing such ditties as "Alouette," "rule Britannia," and "God Save the King...
From the moment when Sir Thomas strode slowly out to the podium to conduct the Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King until he finished conducting his encore he held the almost ell-out audience in breathless suspense with the excellence of his music...