Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airports, for example--is that when top union officials met with federal mediators the day after the strike began, five local chairmen were with them. But many observers agreed with Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Kennedy Library and a member of the President's board which tried to avert the strike, when he said the local issues could be settled "if there were a will to settle...
Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Kennedy Institute and a member of the three-man Presidential board which tried to avert the strike that has paralyzed five major airlines, called on the machinists, Saturday, to end their walk...
...help avert a war-or be ready when it comes-Feisal wants to call an Islamic summit conference in Mecca, and has won support from Iran, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms. "We are seeking only cooperation and solidarity," says Feisal. "All states are invited to heed the call, and President Nasser as a leader is, of course, invited...
There was a pause. The freshmen did not actually know each other very well. By junior year they would probably avert their eyes when they passed on the path. But just at that moment Dr. Harold Martin, who was then the Director of Gen Ed A, walked past the group...
However, it is thought that negotiations through private, rather than diplomatic channels would serve to avert a clash between the two nations...