Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking ways to avert a long series of such defeats, the Johnson Administration continued to hint that it is seriously considering fundamental changes in the ground rules under which it has waged the war. The State Department announced the 'creation of a new interagency task force to reassess the whole deteriorating situation. It is headed by William H. Sullivan, 41, a special assistant to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman, and it will report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...immediate cause of death was anemia: the Reporter simply ran out of money. Never able to pay its own way, the tabloid managed to avert death only by desperate expedients. At the end, more than half the Reporter's staff was still unsalaried and subsisting entirely on meager strike benefits: up to $79 a week. Even its offset press was leased for a token $10 a year from the benevolent International Typographical Union...
...strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor's impatience was understandable. He has been vainly seeking to arrange just such a peace parley ever since the strike ended last March...
...with his wife and two children arrived with 526 fellow immigrants on the liner Empress of Britain: "After all, there is trouble everywhere." But won't the new arrivals be sickened at the sight of apartheid? Predicts one observer: "After the initial revulsion, they will, like their predecessors, avert their eyes...
...their shoulders and removing their hats. An air of amiable amateurishness is carefully cultivated in Britain's public schools, and often seems to pervade its diplomacy. On the eve of World War II, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax drawled: "I distrust anyone who foresees consequences and advocates remedies to avert them...