Word: averted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Both Cole and the professor agreed, however, that the university had to suspend Miss Lucy to avert bloodshed. They also expressed surprise and disgust at the number of students who participated in the violent demonstrations...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion sized him up as a valuable person to be traveling about the Middle East, buttonholed him at once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...