Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Veterans' Committee University Chapter yesterday joined forces with the Student Council's International Activities Committee to avoid a "scattering of effort" in their plans to send students abroad for reconstruction work this summer...
...absence of a strong U.S. political policy to win world leadership, even a preventive war now by the U.S. against Russia would not end the threat of Communist world domination. But-just possibly-the U.S. might achieve a political policy strong enough to break the Communist drive, and thus avoid a Russian...
Airliners now follow radio beams from airport to airport. By keeping on the proper side of the beam they can avoid collisions. But the beam system provides only a limited number of "lanes." It gives traffic operators little exact information about airplanes in flight at different altitudes, and insufficient control over them...
...Papal supporters, as distinguished from the White nobility, or royalist adherents. † Early in their careers the two Churchills agreed that one should alter his name, to avoid confusion. The Englishman consented to make the change because the American was three years older and far more famous at the time, has signed his writings Winston S. Churchill ever since...
...extreme reserve, silence, outbursts of passion and generosity, unyielding pride and unexpected humbleness. Like Dostoevsky himself, Versilov desires to love God and his neighbor-and is suspicious of such desires ("Very proud people like to believe in God, especially those who despise other people. . . . They turn to God to avoid doing homage to man [because] to do homage to God is not so humiliating"). When his unhappy son cries: "I want to know what I'm to do and how I'm to live!", calm Father Versilov advises...