Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that stern admonition, Ike affirmed his faith in free collective bargaining by asking labor and management to negotiate "around-the-clock" to avert a new steel crisis when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this journey, I should receive word of a settlement of this steel controversy that is fair to the workers, fair to management and, above all, fair to the American people," said he. But the steelworkers and steel companies, deeply entrenched and unshakably stubborn after a 116-day siege...
...birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the White House. The bishop: "The President has chosen to refuse . . . to allow this nation of abundance to meet a primary need of countries who want aid towards population control to help avert increasing starvation and misery." In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. R. Norris Wilson, overseas relief director of the National Council of Churches (Protestant), said that if the U.S. refused a request for birth-control assistance overseas, "I would feel that my country had been disgraced." Said the Planned Parenthood Federation...
When a play centers around the impotence of giants and their helplessness at the hands of destiny and trivial accident, the presence of some few gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing...
...strike order, effective immediately, came when the printers rejected, by a vote of 561-511, the publishers' proposal to arbitrate their offer of the same hourly wage increase accepted by ten other newspaper unions. Earlier, an all-day conference in Governor Furcolo's office failed to avert the strike...
True marriage and parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child...