Word: stave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, much of sub-Saharan Africa is stalked by the grim specter of famine. This year has been one of the worst. A 40-month drought has left the area brown and blistered. Crops have failed; millions of cattle have died. Thousands of farmers are eating seed grains to stave off starvation, thus ensuring that there will be insufficient food from future harvests. In lands where suicide is rare, starving nomads, after losing their herds, have killed themselves in desperation...
...response to that demand, and most Union members would agree that its basic framework is an improvement over the old system. The plan ends the unstable arrangement under which graduate students would rush about at the beginning of each term to secure a teaching fellowship and thereby stave off financial disaster. The plan calculates need according to a specified formula, and promises to fund all first-and second-year graduate students to within $1000 of the calculated need. (The $1000 gap Union meetings dwindled to 20 to grants awarded in the old way by departments.) The Kraus plan will require...
Having failed to stave off a ceasefire, Thieu last week redoubled his efforts to win the subtler struggle that now faces him (see following story). The regime placed its considerable military machine on full alert and invented a series of new security measures -some of which seemed on the hysterical side. The use of firecrackers in this week's Tet celebrations was banned in order "to prevent the Communists from taking advantage of the explosions" to attack government installations. Under tough new decrees, anyone passing out Communist flags or leaflets will be arrested; Communist agitators will be shot...
Although Harvard was short-handed for only three minutes, due to an interference call on Bruin defenseman Gary Fatyniuk, the Crimson had to stave off considerable pressure during that span to preserve their 2.1 lead...
...view Ebert's Mysteclin-F testimony as an especially dubious exercise of a somewhat dubious consulting prerogative, and we believe that the Dean has traded on the prestige of the Medical School in an attempt to stave off an FDA ban of the drug. Dean Ebert should take his Harvard administrative post off the market by resigning his consulting position at Squibb...