Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give even greater passing distance. Andrea Doria, however, suddenly closed out her red light, showed her green light and veered sharply to her own left, or port, at undiminished speed, turning across the bow of Stockholm. Stockholm immediately went hard right and full astern, but it was impossible to avoid collision...
...crater, 190 ft. across and 30 ft. deep. The old station, converted to a barracks, was gone; of the 320 soldiers who had been sleeping inside, all had disappeared but two. In the warm days that followed, bodies hidden beneath the tumbled walls began to decompose. To avoid disease, the dead were rushed through a makeshift morgue in the soccer stadium, buried in mass graves. After three days of searching, the number of bodies recovered stood at close to 500. But many hundreds of others who were in the area where blast force reached the disintegration point were missing...
Frederic Warriner's touching and gentle Androcles stays always above the merely coy and cute and manges to avoid any hint of the sentimental excess into which the character might fall in less capable hands. The Ferrovius of Robert Evans is wonderfully full and strong, yet fully cognizant of the weakness forced upon him by an overactive conscience. The Christian Lavinia, blown first this way and then that by her emotions, is given stature and grace by Laurinda Barrett, in a performance notable for the clarity of its projection of constantly shifting moods and attitudes. Of the others, Louis Edmonds...
...days." Rejecting hotheaded talk that British troops should reoccupy the Canal Zone, the Eden government froze an estimated $1 billion of Egyptian assets (including the Canal Company's) in Great Britain. Defense secretaries took stock of aircraft carriers, destroyers and airborne troops available if needed. Alternate ways to avoid patronizing the Suez Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic...
Underlying all of Britain's headline troubles in hanging onto her colonies is a completely undramatic crisis in stabilizing her economy. Prime Minister Eden, who will go to any lengths to avoid a colorful phrase, has in a rare burst of exhortation called it "the new Battle of Britain." Three weeks ago he warned: "We are all in it. and upon its outcome our homes, our jobs and our children's future depends." Unless Britain wins the battle, he told a Lancashire audience, "we are in mortal peril of poverty by stages...