Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as men have fought wars, victors have exacted payment of indemnities from the vanquished. But systematic dismantling of factories as reparations came as an innovation in the wake of World War II. At Yalta and Potsdam the U.S., Britain and Russia tried to avoid the mistake made by the Allies after World War I, i.e., to demand an impossible money tribute from Germany; instead, they plumped for reparations in capital equipment. In addition to anything she cared to take out of her own zone, Russia was to get 25% of the dismantled plants from the West...
Delicacy & Common Sense. This did not mean that the British, who are determined at all cost to carry on trade with Red China, wanted to pick a fight with the Communists if they could possibly avoid it. "We don't want to provoke the Communists," said a political adviser to the Hong Kong government. "We are delicately balancing many factors and trying to exercise common sense...
Sweethearts & Five Stars. Communist troops have been as anxious as the British to avoid incidents along the border between the British enclave and Red China, which runs along the main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless...
...Only when such a theory is developed and taught will composers have the requisite technical skill to be masters of their craft. They must, he holds, become proficient at the most elementary level of composition, the management of tones, and this can come only from understanding. "Then maybe we avoid some accidents...
...Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval of it." 4) "However . . . the judge may-sometimes even must-allow the unjust law to run its course, if this is the only way to avoid a greater evil...