Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter accompanying the petition sought a meeting with University officials to avert a public fight over the housing project and work out a solution acceptable to both sides. Opponents of the plan last night saw little chance of further University action on the dispute until the fall. They said, however, that they would carry their fight as far as the Cambridge City Planning Board, if necessary...
...wreck the delicate mechanism of the whole price-support program. Next month wheat farmers will vote on whether to accept acreage restrictions again this year, and many experts think they will vote against them. If so, it will be up to Ezra Benson to figure out a way to avert a sudden market collapse...
...cautioned him to go slowly. You are too weak to fight now, they counseled. Invite negotiations; play for time. The advice was accepted. While soldiers and tanks moved through the tense streets of Saigon, the weanling government of the weanling state of South Viet Nam dickered and maneuvered to avert civil war and whittle down the warlords of the sects...
...Avert Floor Vote...
...George J. Evans of Middlezex, the other co-chariman, had hoped that the Committee would refer the original five bills to the Commission on Communism to avert a floor vote. The only recourse left to the opponents of any such measure now, he said, is to request another postponement of the vote to obtain an advisory opinion from the State Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the bill...