Word: averter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to protest the overthrow meeting and avert similar incidents, the SGA approved the resolution passed by the Harvard Student Council Monday. In addition the group recommended that Radcliffe and merged organizations include in their constitutions "provisions designed to safeguard their original purposes and most basic aims...
...with the age 65 rule still operating blindly in most areas of the U.S. economy, practically every family can tell of a kinsman who was forcibly retired, then simply shriveled and died within months because he could find no useful niche for himself. To avert this, several big corporations now subsidize counseling services that may become available at any age after a man has qualified for a vested interest (usually after at least twelve years' employment) in its pension plan. Some companies actively urge employees to invoke this service at 55, then again perhaps at 60, and certainly...
...time learn the lesson of creative love and thereby avert suicide in another great war, Sorokin urges, a new form of Western culture, built on a stronger and more durable foundation, will emerge phoenix-like from the ashes left by the he notes, self-interest and altruism dictate the same current conflagration. For the first time in history, policy. Love or perish--the choices for Western man are limited...
...lecture sponsored by the Social Relations Society last night at Emerson Hall, Sorokin noted the disintegration of the old "sensate" culture as one of the basic trends of our age. If man can avert total destruction in the struggle between the new and the old systems of thought the "dawn of a new, great culture is awaiting the man of the future," he claimed...
...only alternatives were war or world government we were likely to have a war before we would have world government. On the other hand, I urged the most careful and prayerful consideration of any partial disarmament measures that might prove feasible and suggested a few tentative ones. Measures to avert war must be of course the deepest concern of everybody at this moment. Henry A. Kissinger Lecturer on Government