Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, came out carrying an umbrella and feeling somewhat appeased: "I disagree with Mr. Murray . . . that the President is seeking to destroy unions. I don't feel that he is trying to do that." The President had told him, he reported, that the plan was designed to avoid really "vicious" anti-labor laws. But Bill Green, though mollified, was still dead-set against fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods...
...presenting this matter to you, for your secret information, in the hope that you will see your way clear to avoid the tragic results with which we are now threatened in the present political campaign...
...enormously to its bill for World War II in order to achieve one of the war's objectives: the permanent disarmament of Germany. Insistence on cash or goods from Germany would mean restoring her heavy industry and, with it, her war potential. Washington was willing to pay to avoid the hard choice between starving the Germans and rebuilding the Reich...
...ragbaggy old darling of the U.S.'s expatriate intelligentsia did not seem to care very much. Lolling in the infirmary of the D.C. jail, he denied that he had ever talked treason: "I was only trying to tell the people of Europe and America how they could avoid war by learning the facts about money." He spoke ruefully: "It's all very well to die for an idea, but to die for an idea that you can't remember. . . ." He struck a conspiratorial tone: "I took Mussolini an economic theory that would have blown the roof...
Reasons for staying ran from A to Z. Some of the men wanted to avoid breaking off with local sweethearts or mistresses. A few were idealistically inclined to help finish the job and decided they could do more as civilians...