Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now I am thankful to say I do not hear those voices ... I have a growing hope that by the strength of our united civilization, and by our readiness and preparedness to defend freedom with our lives, we may avert forever the horrible vision of a third world...
...Four or five hundred years ago, Europe seemed about to be conquered by the Mongols . . . The chivalry and armed power of Europe was completely destroyed by the Asiatic hordes' mounted archers. It seemed that nothing could avert the doom of the famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...
...will ride with Dave Shapiro, a sophomore in his first year of wrestling. Shapiro triumphed in a jayvee match earlier this year. He replaces Buddy King, who will be unable to make the trip, and his main objective against Columbia's third best wrestler, Ed Naumann, will be to avert a pin. Jordan describes Shapiro as "the hardest working kid on the squad, except...
Both Hansen and Harris backed Truman's request for support of farm prices to avert an agricultural depression as supply catches up with demand...
...election, and by insisting that each division of the organization provide competent working plans for every project for which funds are required. But there was another hurdle in the path that could not be surmounted by hardheaded business methods alone. That was the tendency of UNESCO delegates to avert their eyes from the very issues that needed to be faced most squarely...