Word: avert
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...device, which will automatically alert the pilot when another aircraft comes within two miles, show him the position of the intruding plane through a system of lights. By 1959 Collins expects to have an improved model that will show the pilot which way to maneuver in order to avert a collision, may even do the whole job automatically...
...doctor, says Author Donovan, did not tell Ike of his diagnosis, but "the President knew he was very ill . . . To avert shock to Mrs. Eisenhower, who has long suffered from valvular heart disease herself, Snyder sent her back to bed without telling her the President's true condition. Also, he put aside the idea of a public announcement because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only...
...arrive at that,' said the King with a sly twinkle. 'The Koran says that when you see a woman you should avert your gaze. To say you avert your gaze obviously means that you have been looking...
NYLON PRICES are being cut for the first time since 1947 in an attempt to bolster sluggish sales and avert widespread layoffs in synthetics plants. Du Pont and Chemstrand ordered 10% to 22% price cuts in nylon yarn. Dacron will be up to 30% cheaper...
...young artist should "avert the gaze from self...and penetrate the maze" lest self-pity destroy his creativity. Following his own credo, John L. Sweeney, as critic, teacher, and Curator of Lamont's Poetry Room, has, for the last ten years, been a benevolent father for Harvard's young poets...