Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western man?Judaism, Christianity, Islam?have historically demanded that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked a lack of genuine...
...majority, Ferdinand A. Hermens, professor emeritus of the University of Cologne, concluded that "whenever real tyranny exists it is exercised by a minority." The men of Philadelphia greatly feared gusts of passion in momentary majorities and embedded all kinds of checks and balances in the Constitution to avert them. In as grave a matter as convicting an impeached President, they required a two-thirds Senate majority. Beyond that, how far can a democracy go in conciliating a minority view with out rendering itself impotent...
Wrong Number. Last weekend negotiators struggled to avert a nationwide walkout by 710,000 Bell Telephone System employees. The Bell workers' motives were not unlike those of employees in other industries riddled with or threatened by strikes. American Telephone & Telegraph had offered wage increases averaging 9.4% this year and totaling 15% over the next three years...
...modern Japanese. Honda tells him, "Good breeding means a familiarity with the Western way of doing things. We find the pure Japanese only in the slums and in the underworld." Yet Honda has a deeper motivation for this deliberate polishing of the boy's character: He hopes to avert fate, to save the boy from the tragic death which befell each of the other three incarnations of Kiyoaki, by immersing him in the banalities of polite society...
...week's end the British government announced that the Prices had ended their long fast after what appeared to be an eleventh-hour decision by Westminster to avert the risk of violent reprisals by the sisters' Irish Republican Army supporters. As soon as their health permits, the pair may be transferred from London's maximum-security Brixton Prison to jail in Northern Ireland...