Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderation. This week the party's national executive committee was scheduled to start speedy work on a platform which would offer something to everybody. Among probable planks: a halt in nationalization, continued derationing (see below), lowered food costs, and some thawing of the wage freeze. Labor hoped to stave off another election until next year, but with so uncertain a majority in the House of Commons, the party had to have a good platform in stock...
...deficit of $5.5 billion a year? Last week, glib Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave his answer. The Administration's policy of spending more than it earns is no accident, said Keyserling. The Administration planned it that way in order to stave off a recession which "might have turned into something . . . serious...
...fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution, the President faced far more deep-seated and widespread opposition than the M.N.R. For over three months he had been trying without success to get other democratic parties to join with his own Republican Socialist Union Party in a coalition government to stave off economic disaster. Just before the state-of-siege order, a rumor went around that a group of army officers had given Urriolagoitia 24 hours to form a "government of national unity...