Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give up such sideline business as bars and bistros. The flight may not have been pure patriotism, but it was far from kidnaping. The exodus, with its complicated movement of wives and children, luggage and refrigerators and washing machines, was elaborately planned over a long period of time to avert suspicion, and not a single player appealed to the police for protection...
...University appears to have decided that "cooperation" with the City on such issues as student parking may help to resolve such largely political struggles as the recent Quincy House permit delay. But it is unfortunate that it has also decided to avert possible future troubles by unnecessarily restricting student parking...
...chance-a warning that the U.S. does not want to be forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing the French dread-a full-dress Security Council debate on the Algerian...
...Rube Goldberg awkwardness of the U.S.'s federal farm programs was revealed once again last week in a problem faced-and solved, after a fashion-by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. To avert a threatened collapse in hog prices next year, Benson offered to support this year, at $1.10 a bushel, any and all corn grown by Corn Belt farmers who ignored the Agriculture Department's acreage controls (for farmers who complied with controls, the support price is $1.36). He was "sorry," said Benson, but he just had to take the step, because if free-market corn prices...
...Chinese Communists and the policies he had recommended? "No one is immune from making mistakes," he said, and added that history might yet show that the U.S. ought to have organized some sort of coalition between its allies, the Nationalists, and its enemies, the Communists, so as to avert fighting "which the Communists, being tightly organized, were sure to win." Ahead of Old China Hand Service looms an eighth loyalty check-this one under the somewhat stricter rules of the Eisenhower Administration. When it is completed, he may be i) really vindicated, and paid about $18,000 in back...