Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
Sitting near the 45-voice choir, staring modestly down at the grass when speakers praised him, was Dr. Luther Wesley Smith, 56, executive secretary of the American Baptist Assembly. Dr. Smith had many occasions to avert his eyes, for in last week's celebration the Baptists at Green Lake were honoring...
...against my will," he became Ambassador to Ankara, hoping "to do what I could to avert" a general war. Four months later, Hitler pressed the plunger for World War II. He "grossly misled me again," complains Von Papen. But he stayed at his post anyway "to limit the conflict," i.e., to keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested...
...expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth. It is no excuse that the primary purpose of its use is to protect one's friends, or to express one's feelings that Congressional committees are by-passing the Constitutional safeguards of due process of law, or to avert a danger of prosecution for perjury in case one's testimony should later be contradicted by the false testimony of others. Furthermore, since we are not conducting a criminal trial, we will not shut over eyes to the inference of guilt which the use of the Fifth Amendment creates...
Secretary Humphrey, who feels that inflation is still a danger, wants to work credit fat off the economy in a full-employment period when it will not be missed. Then, if a recession threatens, the Treasury and the FRB will be able to loosen up on credit and avert, or at least ease, it. Without such a tightening now, the weapon of credit would be useless and the nation would have foolishly thrown away one of its best weapons to fight a recession...