Word: staved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack pendulum swung back to the Caen sector, where the British Second Army jumped off in a new offensive on a nine-mile front southwest of Caen. The drive punched ahead for two and a half miles, then slowed as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved five divisions to stave off a breakthrough. German headquarters said the fighting might soon reach a new high of intensity and decide the fate of the Norman front...
...political maneuvering by which they kept beleaguered Finland in the war against Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). Finland was another front where time meant something to the Germans. They wanted to keep the Soviets' 20 divisions (plus reserves) in Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping in the Arctic...
This week Shimada had to make a new set of plans to stave off the Americans, who certainly intend to plow into his inner defenses. Except for his German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing...
Even Germans must know that, with 195 divisions still on the Russian front, the force in western Europe is slim. Only smart guessing by their generals, plus quick, accurate transfers of force to the main Allied attack areas, can stave off defeat. Five of the Wehrmacht's best carry this responsibility...
...Alberto has yet to prove that he can stave off inflation indefinitely. But, under his regime, matters have improved. With U.S. help, Brazil is producing many manufactures which she could not buy abroad. She has bolstered her defenses.* She recently announced a plan to pay off her long-defaulted foreign debt. She began to shift her agriculture away from disastrous, one-crop dependence on coffee alone. And she is supplying increasing amounts of strategic materials (figures secret...