Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems certain that the Crimson, with its revamped lineup and "opened out" attack, should get its share of goals against the weak Tiger defense. But even the magnificent play of Keyes and Morgan may not be enough to stave off the Princeton offense, without Bagnoli to guard the nets...
Even nature seemed to turn against Nehru; floodwaters swept down on the powerhouse of Bhakra Dam, showpiece of India's economic-development program, whose 740-ft. wall, when completed, will make it one of the world's highest. As they sought to stave off ruin, U.S. Builder Harvey Slocum and Indian engineers blamed each other for the catastrophe...
...said the party, "are singing the same tune as the internal and external enemies who slander us," and they are "the main danger of the moment." Thus, if heads rolled in China for a colossal doctrinaire failure, they would, typically, be the heads of men who tried desperately to stave off the flop of the leap forward, not those who obstinately insisted...
...stakes became too high for sniping. And the British decided that if they couldn't lick 'em, and wouldn't join 'em, they would try another tack. With the inspired doggedness that characterizes British diplomacy at its best, the British set to work to stave off the prospect of a European economy permanently divided...
...dealings with each other. Finally, the Hellenes united against the Persians, and even this alliance (the Confederacy of Delos, founded in 478 B.C.) was characteristically betrayed when the Athenians rifled the common treasury. This act offers Historian Toynbee an interesting and ironic sidelight. The Athenians used the funds to stave off mass unemployment by building public works. Thus the monuments that crown the Acropolis testifying to the glory that was Greece are actually the result of a kind of grandiose PWA project subsidized with stolen funds...