Word: averter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupied with the Suez problem. Lest Israel press too far, London formally warned the Israeli government that if Jordan is invaded, Britain will go to its aid as an ally. The U.S. let it be known that it would approve the transfer of Iraqi troops into Jordan to help avert possible government collapse and disorder. In the midst of all these military and diplomatic threats and counterthreats, Jordan itself entered the last week of an election campaign. In the refugee-jammed country, anti-West parties stood a good chance to win. Nasser sympathizers already hold key army commands, and young...
...hundred and fifty dining hall workers voted overwhelmingly last night to avert a strike and accept a piece-meal wage formula offered in confidence by the University on Friday. A new contract for 460 union members is expected by the end of the week...
...full membership of the A.F.L. Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, Local 186, will meet tonight to decide whether or not to avert a threatened strike in the University's dining halls by accepting a compromise wage increase...
...device, which will automatically alert the pilot when another aircraft comes within two miles, show him the position of the intruding plane through a system of lights. By 1959 Collins expects to have an improved model that will show the pilot which way to maneuver in order to avert a collision, may even do the whole job automatically...
...doctor, says Author Donovan, did not tell Ike of his diagnosis, but "the President knew he was very ill . . . To avert shock to Mrs. Eisenhower, who has long suffered from valvular heart disease herself, Snyder sent her back to bed without telling her the President's true condition. Also, he put aside the idea of a public announcement because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only...