Word: averting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...October the rebels of Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces have surged across two-thirds of the vast nation, while Mobutu's untrained and underpaid soldiers ran away from town after town or laid down their weapons and cheered the new regime. International diplomats stepped in last week to avert a final clash as the rebels' relentless offensive, apparently unopposed, neared the capital of Kinshasa...
...trying to conceive a child. Lott was an only child and, like Clinton, was treated as an adult from an early age. Both were called upon to mediate frequent arguments between their parents, though Lott's father, unlike Clinton's, was not physically abusive. Still, both men learned to avert conflict, avoid touchy subjects and try to keep everyone happy. Both also developed traits useful for counting votes. Says Lott: "I learned to watch people's body language, look in their eyes to see whether what you were hearing was what they were really saying...
When one surveys the history of our nation, the White House has been at the center of our finest moments. Men risked their lives to defend it in 1812. During the Cuban Missile crisis men strove to avert nuclear holocaust from within its walls. As soldiers fought for their lives at Khe-Sanh, President Johnson monitored the situation from the White House basement. The greatest minds of the past two hundred years have labored at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in order to ensure that our experiment in self-governance succeeds. Bill Clinton turned the White House into an expensive hotel...
...time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting for them to find a way to avert a shutdown. I found myself in the odd position of hoping that most of the work I was doing wouldn't be necessary by the end of the week...
Call me old-fashioned, but I think if someone says "hi" to you, some form of response is required. Instead, it seems that in Harvard language, "hello" is translated as "avert your eyes as quickly as possible and pretend you can't hear...