Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a world, there would be four dominant nations: the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, England in its far-flung British Commonwealth, Russia in Europe, China in the Far East. Each would try to prevent warfare in its own sphere and avoid conflicts with the rest. If they joined in any sort of international organization it would be loose and informal. They would try to postpone another war -but would never ascend to such idealism as thinking of World War II as a war to end wars...
...what to write? What would the avoid readers of the local news want to hear about the life and loves of the inmates of Briggs Hall? Were they truly interested in life among the WAVES or are they polite only in surrendering such precious space. Or could be they use us for filler...
...play football were just being optimistic and the ODT or some other set of initials would ban it. Now it's beginning to look as if every member of the Ivy League except Harvard will have a "formal" team this year, although all are our-tailing their schedules to avoid long trips. But they're all keeping some semblance of a schedule, and not limiting themselves to subway travel, on the theory that if the Government wants them to stop football it will say so; and in the meantime any drastic moves are unnecessary...
...California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep and goats were destroyed...
...Germany chose to try for peace with Russia, the object would be to avoid another possible Versailles. Germany might get such a peace by ousting the Nazis and on fairly easy terms if Stalin would accept the kind of democratic-capitalist regime urged by the Free German Committee in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 2). A peace allowing the German State to retain an army and to rebuild its economy, a peace along the endless, abrasive eastern front, would be by no means unattractive to millions of Germans, even to some conservatives and some of the military. To the Nazis...