Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...formidable documentation, taken from official records (see box), Eisenhower raked the Truman Administration for failing to avert the "tragedy" of the Korean war, despite Republican forewarnings...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "How Can the Western Democracies Avert World War III?" Ohio's Senator John W. Bricker and former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts. Moderator: Columnist Marquis Childs...
...wheat was stopped short at Amman, and never found its way across the Jordan River for distribution to the needy in Jerusalem. The reason: Jordan, quite suddenly, discovered that she had a bumper wheat crop coming up, and that this foreign wheat, which had been sought to avert serious famine, would drive prices down. In the meantime, Jerusalem has almost no wheat, and bread is short...