Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid the long Cowie lines of student-officers, or to draw saved pay, or to have free nights of glorious liberty; or to miss calisthenics, marching and drill; to caper lightly over the tabooed greensward...
...order to avoid current confusion," Cordell Hull hoped politely that Czar Byrnes would issue these instructions to all agencies concerned "at the earliest possible moment...
...extermination was being administered by explosive shells thrown into the bunkers at point-blank range. At week's end tanks equipped with flame throwers spread more intense terror among the bunkers. The Jap could no longer escape by sneaking up so close to the American line as to avoid the bursts of explosives...
...including the present war, the U.S. has invariably had "a complete record of military unpreparedness"; this time, as always in the past, the U.S. had been saved only by "a series of unanticipated events"; the only way to avoid World War III is for the U.S. to begin to prepare...
...first in a violent battle of propaganda that was certain to develop. The world-particularly the Catholic world inside and outside the Axis fortress -was told how Allied airmen carefully trained for this mission, how they studied huge maps, absorbed repeated instructions, took unusual risks in daylight, all to avoid as far as possible the damaging of religious and cultural buildings. Many of the airmen-as many as possible-were Catholics and aboard their planes were seven U.S. and British correspondents to vouch for the meticulous care with which the bombs were aimed...