Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NFME combines this up to date diagnosis with a horse and buggy cure. Medical schools need forty million dollars. To stave off the dreaded day of government intervention, the National Fund has asked corporations to donate the sum in chunks of five million dollars a year...
...stave off the crisis, Italy's winegrowers took a desperate and humiliating step: they offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire for a soft-drink formula that would use wine as a base but not taste like wine. In Rome last week, five of Italy's top authorities on vine culture were gloomily contemplating the 46 formulas that stood as finalists in the contest. Unable to bring themselves to taste the stuff personally, they had farmed out the final judgment to Rome's nightclub patrons. When the winning formula is picked, the winegrowers will bottle...
...Maxie spilled out the whole dirty story--the story that could send Rienzi to the chair, the story that could stave off the sale of The Day, the story that could make Sam the greatest newspaper editor the city had seen since old Pop Garrison died. But did Maxie live to sign that statement? Or did Rienzi's boys get to him? Did Sam get his story anyhow? Or was the paper sold out from under him? And did Rienzi get the chair...
...heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave off the bill, finally offered the constitutional amendment legalizing an income tax. Hull and his group thought that Aldrich was trying to trick them, that the conservatives would kill the proposed amendment in the state legislatures...
...territory 800 miles to the west. Militant nationalism, smoldering in the protectorate of Tunisia for some 50 of France's 71 years of sovereignty, had burst suddenly into open flame. Over the years, France had granted Tunisians more & more voice in their internal affairs in an effort to stave off Tunisian demands for independence. Over the years, Tunisia's nationalists, led by a dynamic yet reasonable and sternly anti-Communist Arab named Habib Bourguiba, 48, had remained dissatisfied. Two weeks ago, as a new French Resident-General arrived to exercise his country's sovereignty in Tunisia...