Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained to the foreman that the animal had just dropped dead of natural causes...
George Robinson, Negro, drawled that if a man were sick he would have to hide from the sleeping shack "rouster" to avoid being forced back into the tunnel. As to economics he testified: "By the time we bought three meals a day and a pint of moonshine the $3 was gone. The men bought the moonshine to cut the cold and dust off their lungs...
...backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export subsidies were unthinkable, he explained, because, "We must avoid any national policy which will result in shipping our soil fertility to foreign nations." Conservation of the soil must be the keynote of U. S. agricultural policy...
...violent temper. In February 1924, when he was on his way through the Legation Quarter to dine with the American Minister, the police attempted to stop his car, which was proceeding at excessive speed, with glaring headlights and armed guards on the footboards. The car stopped to avoid running over one of the police on point duty, and General Feng got out and ordered his bodyguard to kill the constable. Fortunately this order was not obeyed. He snatched the man's baton from him, and then resumed his breakneck career, his bodyguard hitting out at all other policemen they...
...shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...