Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...market place I was jostled by a woman in the 'crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me." The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market place...
...Roosevelt did not disclose the specific amounts promised or sent, nor the shipment routes (Archangel or Vladivostok-see map). But earlier he had told Congressional leaders that Russian armies were far from defeat; that the Russians would not sell out or make peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
University of Iowa. Said the lowan in September 1940: "Let us not . . . permit ourselves to be led . . . into the belief that war is inevitable for the United States. It isn't inevitable. . . . We must at any cost avoid war." In September 1941: "We agree with Mr. Roosevelt; this is the defense of the Americas. . . . And if it draws us into war upon the seas, then war it shall...
...Avoid Movies...
French E: "Avoid it if you possibly...