Word: averted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Kosnik's committee delivered its report to the Catholic Theological Society board a year ago, there was a flurry over how to handle it. Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles, then president of the society, says: "We were aware that it was an explosive document." In an effort to avert criticism, Dulles assigned three scholars to review the work and make suggestions to the committee before the fourth and final draft was written...
Stage-door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...
...Miami Circuit Court Judge Sam I. Silver disappointed opponents of gay rights by ruling the ordinance constitutional. Last week the Dade County Commission, by a 5-to-4 vote, rejected a move to repeal the measure despite the budget-conscious argument that repeal is the only way to avert a referendum that would cost taxpayers at least $300,000. Bryant's heavily religious appeal ("God drew a circle and more or less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll. Bryant...
...Norwegian pollution control agency said yesterday that favorable winds have blown the oil away from the coast, giving the clean-up operation several days to avert what could become a major ecological disaster...
...enough bleakness and despair for one morning's reading, you say? Before you avert your eyes and turn to less disturbing subject matter, consider the other elements of Welcome to L.A. that commend the film to your moviegoing attention. Firstly, not every character flounders through life in the throes of utter despondency. The exception appears in the form of the superstar vocalist Eric Wood, played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble...