Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the semi-official publication, the Defense Department is expected to modify its budget currently before the House Appropriations Committee, in order to avert the threatened force-out of about 5,000 Army Reserve officers...
...this year (TIME, Jan. 11). However, Clark still insisted that there were more danger signals than there were for the minor 1949 setback, and that only a cut in taxes or an increase in Government spending big enough to create a federal deficit of $20 billion a year, would avert disaster...
...second game, Bobby Dean, varsity soccer team captain, scored the Bunnies' goal to avert a shutout...
...hours, retreated gloomily from the scene, his climactic effort a failure. Almost with relief, French politicians grasped at one more chance for delay, put off a vote until this week. In the end the Assembly was expected to approve EDC-in principle-but the parliamentary eagerness to avert decision was at least as eloquent as any vote would...
Both to help deter aggression and to help avert defeat, Seitz calls for "a defensive net." But he warns that the nation must also be ready to strike with "the most fearsome of our weapons." In discussing the morality of employing atomic or thermonuclear weapons, Seitz indulges in none of the hand-wringing that scientists often display in the pages of the Bulletin. It would be immoral, he says, "not to restrain Soviet aggression by any means which will be effective...