Word: stave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal gets tiresome, consequently the enormous turnover of female singers in bands. How many really miss Martha Tilton, Edythe Wright or Connie Haines? And when Dinah Shore gets out of her element and tries to sing "Mississippi Mud," the handwriting is on the wall. Dinah may be able to stave off the ash-can for as long as five years; Hollywood may help. Unless she develops a more positive personality and style, however, she is a goner for sure...
...that. For in the first half, the men from Worcester led the Crimson a merry chase, bombarding the Varsity goal with flurry after flurry of fast and well-aimed shots. But the work of fledgling goalie Mike Keene plus the defensive efforts of the entire eleven, were sufficient to stave off any Clark threat...
...Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone couldn't stave...
...Very hot? Boiling hot? Take a pill. If the pill is a vitamin C tablet, it will stave off heat prostration and muscle cramps, said Dr. John Henry Foulger of Du Pont...
Near Tobruk, all this while, the R.A.F. was feverishly busy. Gaily, pilots flew out from a field which they called Tramride. Grimly, they flew back again and renamed it Tramraid. Their job was to cut Axis supply columns, and it was urgent. They had to try to stave off the fall of Bir Hachéin for, if that hot spot fell, Rommel would have clear lines of communications for an advance on Tobruk...