Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal over Kenya's Hola camps, where eleven African prisoners had been beaten to death by guards, had come the Devlin report (TIME, Aug. 3) calling the British protectorate of Nyasaland a "police state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence...
Steel Strike: He planned no new move to avert a strike "other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations." Both sides should "keep before their eyes what the United States needs...
...Government wants to avert the threatened steel strike, it should investigate the possibilities of a revised revenue...
...every point, "Hitler's irritation increases. In the closing stages Göring and other Nazi leaders come into the room. Göring is the center of a conversation and there is some laughter. It is an atmosphere of relaxed tension. The danger of war has been averted. But Hitler sits moodily apart. He wriggles on the sofa, he crosses and uncrosses his legs, he folds his arms and glares around the room. At intervals,' with obvious effort, he joins in a conversation, only to relapse into silence. At last the agreement is ready, for signature...
...avert famine in 1966, India must triple its present rate of increase in food production, reach a goal of at least 110 million tons of food grains annually...