Word: staved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Neville Chamberlain schemed feverishly last week to stave off further German aggression, the world wondered where Adolf Hitler would next strike. The Dutch were afraid they knew...
...Regency. Trustee Shearn is in almost every physical respect the opposite of shaggy, elephantine Publisher Hearst. He promptly set out to prove himself the opposite, also, in business management. He withdrew the proposed debenture issues, got enough bank credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph...
Somehow or other, the human race is managing to survive the close call, but now long it can stave off the fatal day is uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...
...Prime Minister warned M.P.s (and the world) that continued astronomical expenditures for arms would mean eventual bankruptcy for all nations, but implied that Britain could stave off going broke longer than Germany...
...Pius XII, therefore, Eugenio Pacelli faces the difficult task of strengthening the position of the Catholic Church in a world troubled by numerous totalitarian states which will not countenance a powerful, established church within their boundaries. He has shown his capabilities in his former diplomatic positions. Whether he can stave off the attacks of the totalitarian states as well as build up the prestige of the Catholic Church in the more friendly democratic nations remains to be seen...