Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that moment the U.N. found itself at a critical point when it must either evolve or stagnate and die. If it were to avoid the fate of the League of Nations, the U.N. had to find some means of impressing majority will upon even the biggest powers, and of doing what these big powers had said the U.N. was incapable of doing. It had to grow arms...
Peace With Justice. Said the Roman Catholic bishops: "Every possible means consistent with Divine law and human dignity must be employed ... to avoid the final arbitrament of nuclear warfare. It has been the hope of mankind that a means adequate to the necessity might be found in the concert of the United Nations. This is neither the time nor the place to ... pass judgment on its achievements . . . The fact remains that it offers the only present promise we have for sustained peace in our time: peace with any approximation of justice . . . Worthy of highest praise are [the U.S. Government...
...left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres "one of the most remarkable documents of our time...
...like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked In, Honey in the Honeycomb, as well as more recognizable show tunes and the kind of attractive oldies that always seem to avoid being predictable...
Tyranny, bloodshed and hardship are no newcomers to Sadovy. Born in Czechoslovakia, he tied his home in 1939 at 14 to avoid German forced-labor camps, later joined a Polish unit of the British Eighth Army. He fought up Italy's Adriatic coast as a company photographer, found that the only way to get good pictures was to stay ahead of the infantry...