Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what White called "a move to avert defeat," Peterson, charged with inactivity throughout his tenure, introduced a program of revitalization...
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were reported yesterday to be hopeful their talks with the Soviety deputy premier may lead eventually to a softening of Moscow's German policies. They particularly hope to avert a war-threatening crisis over Berlin...
...investigate" the troubled Syrian situation, Nasser announced appointment of a three-man committee, including his police boss, Zakaria Mohieddin, and Vice President Akram Hourani, the Baath Socialist leader who rushed his country into union with Egypt last year precisely to avert a Communist takeover...
...decision was reportedly made without any direct pressure from the Deans, and was designed not so much to avert official action as to prevent further complications with the University...
...nothing can avert the final curtain's fall...