Word: stave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase in the University's endowment last year from $1.32 to $1.42 billion will not stave off rising expenses, Kaufman said...
...called for "a government of national unity" to lead the country through its latest economic crisis. Macmillan, now 82, recalled the wartime coalition of parties under Winston Churchill. Such a government, the former Tory leader argued, would have enough popular support to take the tough measures necessary to stave off economic collapse. Macmillan declined to name any prospective leader for such a government, but, he added, "somebody will come along, of course...
...government has responded to that suggestion by claiming that given the logistics of mass immunization, 12 weeks or more might elapse between the initial discovery of swine flu and the protection of the American population--too long to stave off an epidemic...
...parties. Whatever the internal dynamic, though, every one of their major sources is with the Ford camp: Alexander Haig, Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin Laird. They've buried Reagan more times this year than they resurrected Muskie in '72, and while claiming the Schweiker gambit was Reagan's only hope to stave off Invincible Jerry, they say it won't make any difference...
Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while...