Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex. If any problem was close enough, desperate enough and clear enough, he knew what to do. He did not possess and he did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
...good friend Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, are engaged in a great gamble: to give West Germany its independence, and to integrate its troops into a European army before the cries for a free and unified Germany can thwart the plan. So far, 76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer has managed to avoid the accusation that he seeks to keep Germany divided. But his popularity is precarious; the lure of the Soviet siren is strong, and he has but 17 months left in office (if a parliamentary vote of confidence could topple the government in West Germany, Adenauer might well have fallen...
...their guarded and identical replies, the West managed to avoid, for the moment, a collision between Schools N01 and 2. The next move is Russia's, and Vishinsky has already telegraphed his punch. Russia says it would consent to Four-Power supervision of Soviet zone elections, but not to U.N. supervision. Four-Power supervision would give Russia a card-staking veto. In this, Russia has a good deal of law on its side, for the Potsdam agreement put Germany not under the U.N. but under the Big Four (although Russia has already violated the Potsdam agreement). Vishinsky...
...mineral rights on 3,200,000 acres of land in Williston Basin, the nation's richest new oilfield. Its rise surprised thousands of bears who had thought the stock too high after a big previous rise and sold it short. Last week, as the shorts frantically bought to avoid heavier losses, they drove the stock still higher...
...England, oldtime Cinema Comics Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, doing a personal appearance at a Newcastle theater, looked down their noses at the modern generation: "Present-day comedians, particularly those in America, gain laughs at the expense of someone else's discomfort. Insult gags are a crudity we avoid...