Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander Weissberg, an Austrian physicist, was in charge of the construction of an experimental plant in Kharkov. Every morning when he swept off to work in his chauffeur-driven car he would pass the prison of Kholodnaya Gora and "avert my gaze" from the distressing spectacle of "prisoners clinging to the bars." But one morning in 1937, Weissberg was unable to avert his gaze: he was clinging to the bars himself...
...calls for the elimination of arbitrary restrictions upon the advance of the citizen soldier in the ranks of military leadership ... It calls for a much broadened opportunity for the professional preparation of the citizen soldier to permit his integration into the higher staff duties and planning designed to avert war if possible, to prosecute it to early victory...
...Tont Pis." Thus last week ended another chapter in the sorry story of a Western failure in Iran. As the earnest agent of a belated U.S. effort to avert disaster in the oil-rich Middle East, Harriman tried to end the chapter more happily. In five weeks at Teheran, he seemed to have built a bridge of compromise between the moderate proposals of the British and the demands of fanatic Iranian nationalists. The British accepted "in principle" Iranian nationalization of their giant Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. But over the details of the enterprise's future operation there...
MACARTHUR : Not necessarily. A quick decision in Korea can avert World...
American Army was a decoy; 2) he thought a negotiated peace would avert a prolonged blood bath and eventual American defeat; 3) the fact that enemy forces held better ground at Monmouth justified his withdrawal tactics...