Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they had reached the discussion stage some time before that. These preparations were undertaken under the guise of repelling a communist threat. But if they were being discussed that far back one is entitled to ask whether they did not help to create the threat they were designed to avert, by forcing Castro into Soviet arms, in order to gain assistance in repelling an invasion which his own intelligence apparatus told him was already in preparation. He was in fact better informed than the mass of Americans. Could anything be more likely to force him to seek the Soviet embrace...
...both sides, only breaking the spiral of antagonism could avert catastrophe. A method already suggested would entail the scheduled restoration of trade relations conditional upon the Cuban leader's promise not to enter into any aggressive alliance or agreement against the U.S. This is a condition which Castro has indicated he would accept if the State Department could encourage a mutually trusted mediator (President Quadros of Brazil) to take the initiative in resuming discussions...
...arms race goes on as it has, we are left to ponder not if, but when, a nuclear war will occur. Our choice is between great change and great ruin. In order to survive we have either to avert an attack or to shield ourselves from its effects. Since anti-missile defense does not exist, protection means going underground in shelters. Secret reports to the President have urged this sort of "passive defense;" a well-known atomic scientist recommends it on television; and Herman Kahn has recently dedicated a book to the idea...
Unless we resign ourselves to crawling underground and re-emerging into a world of ruin, we must work to avert an attack. Threats of retailiation are not sufficient, because fear does not prevent mistakes and accidents, and may, in fact, make them more likely. Fear builds more weapons, and weapons more fear. The fools are those who assume we can go on as we are. Fast-moving technology, from which we can not escape, calls for radical politics, and presents Kennedy's greatest challenge...
...giant Pogo stick, the Philadelphia Warriors' skyscraping (7 ft. 2 in., 260 Ibs.) Wilt Chamberlain grabbed 55 rebounds to break the N.B.A. record by four in the skill the pros value almost as highly as scoring itself. But while Chamberlain also scored 34 points, he could not avert his team's 132-129 loss to the champion Boston Celtics...