Word: stave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Rhode Islanders, including prominent doctors, regarded voluntary insurance as the only way to stave off compulsory health insurance. By their delaying tactics, the doctors were flirting with the bogeyman they most feared...
...Washington next month a conference of the U.S., Britain and Canada will meet to see what can be done to save America's most important ally. What worried the U.S. as much as the prospect of Britain going bankrupt was the possibility that, in an effort to stave off bankruptcy, the British might withdraw into a tight autarchic sterling bloc which would in effect split the West...
...three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing to show their own pictures in their own chain theaters...
...week a federal statutory court in New York shaved their borrowed time a little more closely. The court told the three companies that they could make and distribute pictures or exhibit them, but not both at the same time. Even so, an appeal to the Supreme Court might still stave off the final divorce decree for as long as four years...
...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...