Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind 2-0, the U.S. team showed up next day hoping to stave off defeat in the doubles. As at Sydney, Trabert and Seixas played better together than apart, but they were still not good enough. They took the first set in a tenterhooks service duel, 14-12, against Hoad and steady Rex Hartwig, who at 26 is the old man of the Aussie team. But from then on the U.S. team was usually in trouble, striving to break through service. Trabert-Seixas occasionally shook Hoad with their "crossover" signal, but they could not shake Shotmaker Hartwig...
Stimulated by such philosophy, the people of I Love Me decide that the best way to stave off Odioso's threatened invasion is to send a kind of Point Four delegation to We Hate You to convert the people to democracy. The happy islanders sing...
Chicago's sculptors rallied to stave off the threat to a potential source of work for their profession. The city's chapter of Artists Equity thumbed through the city's records and found that "excluding cannons, boulders, flag poles, totem poles, chains and fire relics," there were only 68 works of sculpture for Chicago's 6,020 acres of parks with their 205 miles of boulevards and drives. Then, because Illinois Attorney General Latham Castle showed no inclination to contest the Art Institute's decision, Artists Equity moved to substitute its President Haydon and vociferous...
...Wharton in 1000, along with Joel Cohen's win in the 60-yard high hurdles, gave the varsity a slight lead on Yale. But hen Yale won the pole vault, the jumps, the hammer, and the shot, even the varsity's sweep of the relays was not enough to stave off the Elis who tallied 56 3-5 points to the Crimson's 53 2-5, and the Tiger...
...days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France is, his enemies are still confident that they will shortly bring him down...