Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Paris, Queen Elisabeth ordered a snappy military suit of blue and silver (fighting was suspended while the new costume was passed through the hostile lines to her under a flag of truce), charged at the head of the troops with her quixotic husband. Patrols-under strict orders to avoid "all unnecessary embarrassments"-had a hard time to keep from capturing the royal pair. Alberoni had an equally hard time running the battles and cooking the Queen's meals. "This sort of existence can't go on!" he groaned. When the Quadruple Alliance demanded that Alberoni be ousted...
dated April 12, 1944, carried statements by Chinese Government officials, including the Minister of Education, suggesting their revision or clarification to avoid misunderstanding of their intent. Such action will be awaited with interest and hopefulness...
Then, says Dr. Adrian, "an electrical survey could scarcely avoid giving some entirely novel information about what is happening in the brain when we think or solve problems or decide what...
...needs 48,000 more men for overseas service. The Government already has the power to change the regulations and send all men in uniform overseas, but has not done so, out of deference to bitterly anti-conscriptionist Quebec. Many Canadians suspected that a last effort was being made to avoid compulsion for zombies...
...auction, in December 1922, of 1,574 Jersey shipyard homes owned by the U.S. Shipping Board-a record 12-hour session when Day stopped the clock for two hours to avoid selling on a Sunday...