Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would prolonged Senate consideration of Ike's proposals to spend up to $200 million for economic aid to the Middle East and stave off Communist aggression in the Middle East with U.S. troops impair this new doctrine's effectiveness? "I certainly have never quarreled with the right of the Congress of the U.S. to examine every proposal seriously, earnestly, and dig to the bottom of it, and contemplate its possible effects," said the President. But "time is important in this area because we know of certain developments going on that are not certainly in our best interests...
...excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another in his unsuccessful attempt to stave off the war. Today Ike has come to realize that in many areas he is his own best diplomatic agent. He regards the success of the Nehru visit as proof of this, and intends to make the most of the Eisenhower Approach during the long procession of foreign digni taries...
...Sale. In the midst of a Cadillac-plated prosperity in Tokyo, only the efforts of a group of charities ranging from the United Nations International Children's Fund and Catholic and Protestant groups to Japan's own Association of Pinball Machine Manufacturers have been able to stave off actual starvation in Hokkaido. Even though the U.S. Air Force last week flew in three planeloads of food. Hokkaido's farmers face both hunger and bankruptcy. "We've sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing...
...Globe said: "Never before in a big game has the winning team played the better football in every department of the game or the loser been so helpless to stave off an overwhelming defeat. It was the worst beating the Blue ever has experienced at Harvard's hands and it was a beating which was administered with an exhibition of superior play that was simply overwhelming...
...only made a tidy fortune (which is now invested in real estate and Series E Government bonds); he soon made a name for himself as a leading spokesman for the Young Turks who were urging sweeping reforms on the old, bold exchange in a last-ditch fight to stave off SEC regulation. The insurgents triumphed, transforming the exchange from a private club run for the benefit of its members into the public utility that serves as the major source of U.S. venture capital. After Old Guard President Richard Whitney was convicted of embezzling exchange members' and customers' funds...