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Word: staved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through five weeks of debate and backroom maneuvering, the Israelis strove desperately to stave off the vote. Premier David Ben-Gurion denied outright that the raiders were Israeli soldiers, as alleged by the U.N. truce supervision chief, Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Strongest Censure | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...same omission in protection as its predecessor: it contains no effective provision to deal with an employer who breaks the law while fighting attempts of a union to organize his factory. Since an unfair practices suit requires at least a year to settle, an obstructionist employer can easily stave off union organization with delays. Even should the union ultimately win its suit against him, attempts to organize are usually quashed by time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urgent Revisions | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peak of Glory | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Coronary patients who think they can stave off further attacks by unnatural idleness are mistaken, said Manhattan's Dr. Arthur M. Master. 'Of 2,200 heart attacks, he found, 23% occurred during sleep, 29% while at rest, 24% during mild activity, 13% during walking at an ordinary pace, 9% during moderate activity and only 2% during unusual exertion. ¶ Basing his judgment more on "clinical sense" than on statistical proofs, Boston's Dr. Richard H. Overholt advised: "If you have a family history of cancer of any kind, don't smoke, but if you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Farmer Bading went to work on the neighbors with a will. He clobbered the postman with a shovel, yelling "At last I have you, you witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witches Abroad | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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