Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK, April 21--President Truman today coupled a pointed demand for sharp price reductions with an appeal for home front "unity" to avert a major depression which would carry disaster for the forces of democracy the world over...
...table"--neatly meets the spirit of Provost Buck's gesture. Similarly in Leverett the projected overhauling of the Library lighting system may well stimulate use of House facilities for that study and intellectual camaraderie which the House Plan was founded to advance. What the masters must take care to avert is short-sighted renovation which does not make a positive contribution, however limited, in behalf of realizing President Lowell's original concept...
...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...
...clattering down of the British Empire, with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs of sorrow...
...sets up the proposition that within the next two years the American economy will face a serious set-back, thanks to the lack of profitable investment outlets, the continued growth of monopoly, and the lack of purchasing power in the lower income brackets. His six point program to avert the crisis reads like a liberal's dream, but in the face of Republican control of Congress it is inappropriately the position of the proverbial snowball...