Word: averting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hastily machine gun units were rushed to strategic points in Athens. Interest payments on Greek loans held abroad we're "stopped to avert a collapse of the drachma." President Alexander Zaimis was reported about to assume dictatorial powers, for good reason: the General Confederation of Greek Workers had abruptly decided to call a Greek General Strike "in sympathy with demands for higher wages already made by individual unions...
...Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin and burial squad. Entering the arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
...freedom of Captain Dreyfus. Jaures remained irreconcilably radical. Taking the constructive road of compromise, both Clemenceau and Briand had become Premier of France before citizen Jean Jaures was assassinated July 31, 1914. Explicitly predicting and clearly foreseeing the World War, Citizen Jaures had been working day and night to avert the conflict by visionary appeals to Socialists throughout the world to persuade their Governments not to fight...
...effect only by a strong dictatorship. A dictatorship, with the militant opposition certain in Germany, spells revolution. But if Hitler pursues a conservative policy his shaky party may dissolve, and he will fall. The only hope of the Nazis is to discover a strong and skillful policy which will avert the destruction which threatens to destroy them...
Witness of the crash was Col. Young's information chief, Frederick R. Neely. A shrewd publicity manager, he requested authority to notify newspapers of the accident to avert wild rumors, scare headlines. The Press came, saw, got answers to its questions, went away satisfied that the story was trivial. Result: news reports were brief. 98% accurate...