Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to get wicked faced because the Big Green Indians are going to beat the Bejesus out of Princeton. The Princeton-Dartmouth game usually decided the Ivy League championship in the sixties, but now it just means a big night for the Green Mountain. The Tiger's defense will avert a massacre, Dartmouth...
Lehmbruck was a finely responsive modeler, but he rarely contrived to give his nudes the unabashed, vigorous monumentality of Maillol's. Qualified by unease, bowed down by shame, indecision or guilt, they avert their gaze and seem on the point of flight or evaporation. The result was a fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants...
Hints. The entire McGovern phenomenon-his progress from near-obscurity to something like a fait accompli-has left the Democratic Party in a state bordering on stupefaction. Only now, perhaps too late, are the party's regulars beginning to shake off their astonishment and think of ways to avert what many of them regard as the disaster of a McGovern candidacy. But thus far no one has produced a candidate, an organization or a plausible scenario to stop McGovern...
Some things can be done to avert a showdown. Companies in danger of bumping against their profit-margin ceilings could pour more money into such activities as advertising and research and development, thereby reducing immediate profits but also perhaps increasing their share of the market. Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh-based maker of valves, meters and power tools, views the necessity of complying with margin ceilings as a chance to "give my competitors a good kick in the pants...
...particularly satisfying weekend for the Crimson. With five events remaining in the meet they faced the distinct possibility of a loss to the Big Red. In fact, Harvard needed a sweep of the last three individual swimming events to avert a rather unexpected defeat. But improbable as that seemed the team pulled three straight sweeps to clinch the meet before the final relay...