Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying to avert a break in British-Rumanian relations long enough to burn his Legation's secret papers, and to insure the safety of six British oil executives whom the Rumanians had arrested, suspecting sabotage. His only triumph-and since he likes Rumania even this one made him sad-was being able...
Congressional antics in election years are traditionally clownish. Many a sense-making, God-fearing Congressman goes more than somewhat screwy in a desperate effort to avert the biennial wrath of his constituency. But last week's two-ring Congressional circus was tops...
...warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader. To avert a bloody brawl King Carol's police had to rush to the waterfront, arrested several dock workers...
...racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
...escorting her. Off Charleston, S. C. the U. S. heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (President Roosevelt's last cruiseship) took up the patrol, to see that no untoward incident occurred in neutral waters. She rode so close to the Columbus that the latter had to carry a night light to avert collision, but no ill befell her until fugitive and escort reached a point 320 mi. northwest of Bermuda. Then the British destroyer Hyperion, which had heard Tuscaloosa's radio speaking to someone, asked: "What ship are you escorting?" Captain Harry A. Badt of the Tuscaloosa replied (in effect): "Find...