Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move as ordered because other police squads were pushing them from the rear and sides. The mass of marchers unavoidably spilled into the police lines, and when they did, they were beaten again. After half an hour, the demonstrators' monitors started to disperse the moiling crowds and avert what might soon have become a far uglier scene than its pacific entrepreneurs ever envisaged...
Something was in fact being done to avert racial violence in the slums this summer...
...riots were, their resolution offered hopeful pointers for the future. Given levelheaded law enforcement, maintenance of open communication with local Negro leadership, and-above all, perhaps -the deployment of concerned and responsible Negroes like the Tampa and Dayton "white hats," city officials may well be able to avert full-scale conflagrations that can only scar their cities and needlessly inflame race relations...
Through the dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...minor S.P.D. losses in two recent state elections have made the Socialists sensitive to any political maneuvers by their coalition partners. By taking over the party, Kiesinger expects to be able to keep the more rambunctious members of the C.D.U. party under control and thus be able to avert a split in his coalition...