Word: averter
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Both Cole and the professor agreed, however, that the university had to suspend Miss Lucy to avert bloodshed. They also expressed surprise and disgust at the number of students who participated in the violent demonstrations...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion sized him up as a valuable person to be traveling about the Middle East, buttonholed him at once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...
Last week the Soviet government announced that abortions will once more be permitted in Russian state medical institutions to women who want them. Probable reason for the reversal: the spread throughout Russia of illegal abortions. Henceforth, said the government, it will try to avert abortions not by law but by "further extension of state measures for encouraging motherhood and by educational and explanatory means...
...very moment that Israel was asking the U.S. State Department for arms to meet "the grave national emergency" created by Egypt's Soviet arms deal, Sir Anthony Eden was pushing a "compromise" plan to redraw Israel's border in favor of her neighbors. Eden, anxious to avert war (but also hopeful of weaning the oil-rich Arab states away from Soviet influence), proposed that new frontiers be drawn around Israel some where between the narrower limits proposed in the U.N. partition plan of 1947 and those accepted by the Arab states in the 1949 armistice...
...Foreign Service regards this case as a personal wound," said Macmillan. "Action against employees . . . arising from suspicion and not from proof may begin with good motives, and it may avert . . . disasters, but. judging from what has happened in some other countries, such a practice soon degenerates into satisfaction of personal vendettas or a general system of tyranny, all in the name of public safety...