Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least so it was described-to be shipped through Sweden to the beleaguered Germans in Narvik. Also for "humanitarian purposes" the Swedes allowed German merchant seamen marooned in Narvik to return home through Sweden. If any plausible excuse could be provided, Sweden was prepared to placate Germany to avoid...
...play straightened out this artful tangle in the only way to avoid sentimentality or unpremeditated farce-Rims crawled back through his wife's bedroom window. Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein's otherwise brilliant script would have done well to follow the play. Instead it sends Father Halevy into unsuitable heroics, makes Rims flex his moral muscle, resolve to fight on to victory because his wife is going to have a baby...
Most Early American church windows were made from ordinary glass that was merely stained. Such windows shut out light and had a flat, ugly effect. To avoid this, Connick uses transparent wavy glass which was colored while being manufactured. The irregularities in this glass are intended to give the window depth, and thus more beauty...
...crews grinned and pummeled each other as they stripped, washed down with antiseptic and put on clean uniforms (to avoid infection if wounded), before going to battle stations, as the fleet put to sea for battle. If they expected another full-dress performance like Jutland, they reckoned without Hitler's strategy. He had no hope of winning in a concentrated battle between capital ships. His plan was so far as possible to avoid battle at sea, to divide his fleet into a number of small squadrons and scatter them as protection for numerous parties at strategic points along...
Under such conditions sea battle was bound to be diffuse. In the usual foul weather up & down the Scandinavian coast, the first problem of Britain's Navy was to find the enemy, to avoid his mines and submarines, to brush aside his air craft and come to grips, here, there, anywhere with detachments of the German Fleet and its convoys...