Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerry" Persons, the President's liaison man with Capitol Hill, had put in long hours trying to coax dissatisfied Congressmen back into line. Dwight Eisenhower himself had thrown the weight of his military prestige behind the air-power cut in a nationwide radio speech. Last week, fighting to stave off the possibility that Congress might decide to rewrite the budget, the Administration seized on the notion of using public hearings of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee as a sounding board for Wilson and his program...
...strike was provoked by the decision of the Administration's "impartial" fact-finding committee to give the union an even bigger raise than it expected-plus the union shop to boot. When the industry refused, Mobilizer Charles Edward Wilson, General Electric's ex-president, tried to stave off the strike with a deal to give the steelmakers a price raise to match the wage increase. President Truman okayed the deal, then backed down, leaving Wilson no choice but to quit after 15 months as mobilizer. After 53 days, a settlement was reached; it was almost exactly what Wilson...
...camel-hair bathrobe, Mohammed Mossadegh sat up in bed and received Hjalmar Schacht, chief fixer of Nazi Germany's elastic currency. In Teheran at Mossadegh's summons to take a look at Iran's Scheherazadian finances, Schacht presented Mossy with a plan to stave off bankruptcy. Main feature: increase the amount of money in circulation by 20%. He also pointed out that there was no real hope of balancing the books unless Mossy could reopen the source of nine-tenths of Iran's national income: the refinery at Abadan. Schacht added bluntly: Iranians are "lazy," ought...
...stave off a complete collapse of business, the Reds last week called off the hunt. To the impoverished tigers that remain, junketing Red commissars explained Peking's new "policy of positive help." Now that businessmen have been relieved of their property and savings, it is their patriotic duty, the commissars said, to pitch in and put the People's economy back on its feet. At least until the next tiger hunt...
...Balks. Five companies of Foot Guards, brave in their two-foot bearskins, scarlet tunics and white belts, wheeled in long-lined precision into Whitehall's Horse Guards Parade. Each man was polished until he shone: each had been issued a lump of barley sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief...