Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians produced new tanks, which appalled the Japanese and probably postponed any plan for all-out war that Tokyo was nursing. Together these incidents made a fantastic chapter in modern war, a chapter possible only to two peoples who expected war some day, but mutually determined to avoid it until one or the other was ready...
...program, according to Hansen, can be financed by taxing and by borrowing. A maximum number of taxes are necessary in war in order to avoid a tremendous war concentration of wealth...
...their orders from Berlin, the State Department finally ordered all Finnish consulates in the U.S. closed by Aug. 1. The action will not necessarily lead either to a break in diplomatic relations or to a declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
...more than nerve strain and high cost of living. Neutrality lessens the danger of real conflict between those of her citizens who are pro-Axis (mostly upper and middle classes) and those who are pro-Ally (mostly army and peasantry). If she remains neutral she will not only avoid carnage and destruction but, whoever wins, she may do well at the peace table...
...Navy men. They were marching along the other side of the Yard, going toward Pierce. Hup two three four, hup two three four. Vag marched past University Hall on his way back from History 1. Hup two three four. He swerved suddenly, as precisely as possible, to avoid the three girls that were swinging along into...