Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could conclude that there was no more chance of avoiding or postponing World War III. They could begin dropping atomic bombs on the center of World Communist aggression-Russia-and take the feeble measures now available to minimize Russian retaliation. There is little chance that such measures could 1) stave off Russian atomic bombing of the U.S., perhaps of Britain, 2) defend Europe against Russian conquest, or 3) protect any part of the Asian mainland. Very long range, however, there was a chance that the U.S. and its allies could win such...
Slug Dolan, Dick Larkin, and Chuck Nelson led an effective Deacon running and passing attack. The Kirkland eleven hold twice deep in its own territory to stave off line smashes by the fast Adams backs. Both teams showed considerably stronger on defense than offense...
Only a Chinese Communist or Russian army marching to the aid of the Korean comrades could possibly stave off a swift defeat for the Red aggressors. But more & more such intervention seemed unlikely. The time for it would have been a month ago when a relatively minor effort might have pushed U.N. forces into a Dunkirk on their southern beachhead. Now, for a change, not the free world but the enemy had acted too little and too late...
...took the job, Hoffman would not lack for funds. Old Henry Ford and his son Edsel had bequeathed the Ford Foundation 81% of Ford's non-voting stock (estimated worth: $250 million), primarily as a device to stave off inheritance taxes which would have shaken the family's hold on the company. Dollars kept clinking into the foundation's vaults as fast as Ford cars rolled off the assembly lines. So far only $27 million of the conveyor-belt income had been passed out, and the trustees had called in a special committee of scholars to tell...
...down simply by dumping on the market some of its $2.5 billion load of surplus farm products. Said Chicago Board of Trade Executive Vice President J. 0. McClintock: "Since there is really no scarcity, with the government holding all these goods . . . selling surplus is possibly the best way to stave off inflation...