Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired of being the whipping boy of a lagging national defense program, last week labor rose to protest. Cried President William Green, the A. F. of L. stood "four square in support of the national defense program. We commit ourselves to avoid strikes. . . . We are ready to make any reasonable and necessary sacrifices...
...canceled last week, presumably to make way for war transport of Hitler's forces. But for Hitler, going to Italy's aid was no picnic. If he did, he might find himself fighting a war on two fronts-the disadvantage which he has been most eager to avoid...
Berlin's opinion of the importance of the war at sea was soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with...
...Students spending a substantial part of their vacation in Canada or elsewhere outside the United States. A permit is absolutely necessary to avoid a clear violation...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...