Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First, by feeding the conquered peoples we avert the hate that those peoples will feel for us if we starve them. Obviously, this is our gain--not Hitler's. But Hitler must agree to the plan because if he does not the same hate will be turned on him. Second, would it be possible for Goebbels to say, "America approves the new order" when America is at war with Germany...
...horrible thing and we should avert it if possible...
That you cannot avert war by embracing...
...dancers. The premiere ballerina, a half-clad blonde named Missouri, swooned in the arms of a sweating youth named Mississippi. They were giving a choreographic version of a famed group of statues: Carl Milles' fountain The Meeting of the Waters, whose huge, wriggling nudes still cause bluenoses to avert their eyes when crossing Aloe Plaza in St. Louis (TIME...
...perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later said, "Chamberlain had never met anybody in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf...