Word: averter
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...Bergère, the Place Catalle and the Mewlin Rouge, so one day she departs for Purree in pussuit of happiness. Her boy friend, a hair-trigger mouser called Jaune Tom, hurries off to Paris as soon as he gets the bad mews, but he arrives too late to avert catastrophe: Mewsette has al ready fallen in with Meowrice Percy Beaucoup, a sinister allée cat who has designs on her chatsteté. As for Jaune Tom, what happens to him in the big city shouldn't happen to a dog, but in the end the hero hangs...
...which Russia's vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea...
...operating in the black." In many cases, Studebaker has been able to slice overhead by combining operations with its new subsidiaries. The parent company's styling department, for example, now serves all divisions. And so far, the diversification program has paid off handsomely: where it managed to avert a loss of $3,100,000 in 1961 only by selling off its plastics division, Studebaker showed a profit of $776,000 for the first half of this year...
...decision to pull back was sensible, but it looked embarrassingly like a retreat. Attorney General Kennedy tried to make it clear that the retreat was only temporary. The Justice Department announced that the marshals had been recalled to avert "major violence and bloodshed." Bobby himself issued a statement declaring that "the orders of the federal courts can and will be enforced...
...Averting a Lynching. On the touchy issue of race relations, the Independent was remarkably outspoken for its time. "The Jew and the Negro are not unlike our own people." said the Bank Clerk, a front-page character who held weekly colloquies with the Soda Jerker. "We have our own ignorant, vulgar, loudmouthed, swaggering, chiseling white Christian Nordics." Soda Jerker: "Yes, but with this difference: the Jew and the Negro are minorities and we are in the majority. Our own breed of jackasses so far outnumber us that we long ago gave up the idea of handling them." When a twelve...