Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muslim minister identified the American black man with the Biblical slaves in Egypt. The "Moses" of the Black Muslims is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the inspired leader of the group. "God has revealed the solution to Mr. Muhammed, and if the modern 'Pharoah' [the federal government] wants to avert the wrath of God it must go to Elijah Muhammad to find out what it must...
...folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share her bath. Back in Washington again, her husband works hard to avert war, and when it comes he orders his wife to stay in the U.S. with their daughter. She gravely refuses, and the rest of the picture describes what life was like in wartime Japan for a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee. It wasn't exactly chrysanthemums...
...Russia exploded nuclear bombs with daily regularity, the satellites were plainly more frightened than the West, and Red leaders made calming speeches to avert rising war fears. A grisly joke took measure of the situation. "What would you do if a nuclear war broke out?" asks one Communist. "I would cover myself with a sheet and walk slowly to the cemetery,"' replies another. "Why slowly?" "To avoid creating panic...
Many opposition members believe that the Trujillos intend to stay on at all costs. But there is the alternate possibility that they will go quietly, leaving Balaguer as the legitimate head of the government, at least until the elections, promised next May. Such a course would avert the danger of a chaotic period, in which the forces of Castro and Communism work best...
...really tried to look, said Eichmann's dry, pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...