Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They avoid the established sea lanes, may take three months for a voyage to the Far East. Discipline is strict, marine gun crews are carried. September to April is the best season. Most dangerous areas are just outside port and the well-patrolled South Atlantic zone...
...sour note in mid-solo, the first trumpeter had "the freeze" put on him for days by the inmates. Variety acts are out. The convicts decided they were undignified. They work hard on their show, sometimes rehearsing until 2 a.m. When a Don Lee producer suggested that they could avoid this by using simpler musical arrangements, the musicians said they did not want to sound like "a bunch of lop-eared cons...
According to one description, the launchers are arranged like a flat bank of ten organ pipes at the bow of a small naval landing craft. The crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...
Cattell challenged senility with a passionate interest in chess and tennis, which he played until he was nearly 70. He was fond of telling audiences that anyone can make himself happy by the proper application of psychology. His own prescription: "Work hard and long, live frugally, avoid waste, improve your business methods, pay your debts, accept charity only as a last resort...
...within a month (by equipping ships with degaussing girdles). Rocket guns are now in use both by Axis and Allied armies. Radar is credited with a very large share of British victory in the Battle of Britain. But Germany's radio locator has not enabled the Nazis to avoid defeat in the aerial Battle of Germany...