Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only way in which we can avoid war, or worse still, loss of freedom, is to have a bigger stick than Hitler and the only way to accomplish this is to have conscription...
Labor contends that the Government coalition, mainly Conservative, would be sure to go down in defeat, and friends of Mr. Menzies have been anxious to avoid the test. In a speech which resounded throughout Australia before last week's accident, an Australian Labor leader key-noted...
Democrats (Willkie bolters excepted) did not avoid Mr. Roosevelt. He avoided them. His aversion appeared not to be merely an expression of the boredom, impatience, surfeit which he has lately shown toward the professional politicos of his party. Some shrewd observers had it figured out another way: that he had a gloomy conviction that Great Britain was going to be defeated within the next 60 days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds...
...this hemisphere from outside danger. But I am firmly convinced that what is taking place today . . . is a relentless attempt to transform the civilized world . . . into a world in which lawlessness, violence and force will reign supreme. . . . The one and only sure way for our nation to avoid being drawn into serious trouble or actual war ... is for our people to become thoroughly conscious of the possibilities of danger, to make up their minds that we must continue to arm and to arm to such an extent that the forces of conquest and ruin will not dare make an attack...
Declared this Church dignitary: "If I were he [the Bishop of Nassau] I should keep up friendly social relations-go to functions at Government House and so on. If the Duke presented himself for Communion without giving me notice, I think I should give him Communion; to avoid public disgrace, I wouldn't pass him over at the altar. But I should see him privately afterward, and ask him not to come again...