Word: averted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors attributed the cause of death to a coronary thrombosis in epee (Harvard lost the weapon 8-1) and an unaccountable blockage of the sabre-torial artery (Yale sabremen triumphed, 7-2). Even a recovery from a season-long paralysis in foil was an insufficient antidote to avert the Crimson demise...
Financial problems plaguing two Harvard Square restaurants have forced one to close temporarily and another to institute some last-ditch changes to avert a shutdown...
...Eastern Europe, population experts estimate that 23 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Poland, 44 per cent are aborted in Bulgaria, and 60 per cent are aborted in Hungary and the Soviet Union. Latin America, China, and Japan rely very heavily on legal or illegal abortion to avert unwanted births. In all these countries, abortion is demographically significant...
...many crops, and with good reason: demand for U.S. grains is increasing faster than farmers can harvest their fields. In July the U.S. made a billion-dollar deal to supply Russia with wheat and other crops. Then China bought wheat from the U.S.; now India needs wheat to avert a potential famine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipated bumper crops this year-but then the rains came. Since September, the beginning of the Midwest's harvest season, unprecedentedly heavy rains and freezing temperatures have repeatedly mired farmers' machinery in axle-deep mud. "Parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...
Although we must condemn Judge Garrity for failing to avert this aberration of justice. We hold in contempt those government agents who hold in contempt those government agents who spent the past 16 months in relentless drive to clog the free flow of information...