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...sheer force of character, Washington established that he, not Congress, would name his Cabinet, and that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...
...photographed in his pajamas when he learned that the old man had put him in an even tighter spot by committing suicide. The new chief of state took over his job without any ceremony. While heavily armed troops held Rio like a city at war, he moved fast to avert any coups and to restore order...
...avert surprise invasions by crop pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed fluorescent "lamp traps." Luring the "advance-guard" moths of crop-destroying grubs (e.g., tobacco budworms, cotton bollworms) with near-ultraviolet "black light," the traps soon collect a representative catch, give farmers as much as three weeks' time to prepare counter-measures against each type of invader...
...Geneva this week, the West was preparing a partial surrender to the Communists. Some pleaded that it was only a small surrender, some that it was necessary to avert worse, some that they were helpless to do otherwise. But surrender it was. Under Geneva's mild sun, the mood of the diplomats was dark; veteran newsmen likened it to Munich...
...considerable action this past season as a free-styler and as a member of the Crimson's 300-yard medley and 400-yard free style relay teams. Whatle's key performance came in the Dartmouth meet when he helped the 440-yard relay team beat the Green and avert...