Word: averted
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...horrible thing and we should avert it if possible...
That you cannot avert war by embracing...
...dancers. The premiere ballerina, a half-clad blonde named Missouri, swooned in the arms of a sweating youth named Mississippi. They were giving a choreographic version of a famed group of statues: Carl Milles' fountain The Meeting of the Waters, whose huge, wriggling nudes still cause bluenoses to avert their eyes when crossing Aloe Plaza in St. Louis (TIME...
...perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later said, "Chamberlain had never met anybody in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf...
...great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying to avert a break in British-Rumanian relations long enough to burn his Legation's secret papers, and to insure the safety of six British oil executives whom the Rumanians had arrested, suspecting sabotage. His only triumph-and since he likes Rumania even this one made him sad-was being able...