Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coexistence--and stern--in warning China that the U.S. could not forever tolerate such "outrages." The strong protest appeared especially temperate when contrasted to Senator Knowland's call for a blockade of China and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The President's desire to avoid a shooting war should now be evident to the free Asian nations that want a long period of peace for economic development...
Eden had high hopes that the accords would go through unanimously. Herbert Morrison pledged Labor's official support. The Bevanites, voted down in party caucus before the debate, were under threat of party discipline. Attlee, like Eden, hoped to avoid trouble by avoiding a formal vote in the House...
...help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs, 3) check in with the cops every Sunday, 4) avoid saloons, cafes, race tracks and all shady characters except himself...
...were fighting an enemy that for all its anticolonial pretensions, was actually and determinedly Communist. By then the hour was late. "We have here a sort of cork in the bottle" said President Eisenhower, of Indo-China Said Vice President Nixon, amid the sullen thunder of Dienbienphu : "If, to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia, we must take the risk of putting our boys in, I think the executive branch has ... to do it." But though the U.S. was spending about $800 million a year in Indo-China by war's end, it kept out of the shooting...
...wage from the auto industry. Though negotiations will not start until spring, McCoy is already briefing three top FMCS mediators on all the facts and arguments in the case. He hopes to use the negotiations as a testing ground for one of his favorite ideas: the best way to avoid labor trouble would be through preventive mediation. He wants FMCS men to preside over the auto bargaining sessions from the start as neutral chairmen whose job it will be to keep things moving smoothly, stepping in only when asked. Says McCoy: "An impartial third man in the ring...