salvage

Sen. Mary Landrieu did everything she could Monday night to salvage the shards of her bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.

None of this is to say that the wreck and salvage of the Costa Concordia should have received less attention.

It was a negligent accident that cost more than 30 lives, including a salvage diver who perished working on the wreck.

Two full hotels on Giglio port have been rented entirely for two years for the salvage crews and the command center.

Can a radical overhaul salvage this once gripping spectacle?

There were no odds and ends, even, of wreckage which I could salvage for one more week of the old life.

"These, madam," said I, handing her a small plush bag into which I had poured the "salvage" taken from my sticky palms.

Others were retaken by the English blockading squadrons, who received then one eighth for salvage.

In a week this salvage of débris was finished; the rock was swept clean, and the Durande was lightened.

The wreck and the salvage vessel assisting each other in opposite ways, saved half the labour of the operation.