Word: staved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic advantages equal to its military significance. If a free state were established in Indo-China, it would be easy prey to economic catastrophe during the first years following its separation from France. The stabilizing effect of close co-operation with the other nations of Southeast Asia would stave off domestic Communism...
...watching Monk Aiello, Ed Curtis, and Phil Waring from the bench. Midfielders Dink King, Dave Rogers, Fuzzy Stuart, Evan Spelfogel, and Paul Corcoran have played little, but should see considerable action today. Larry Devoe will get in at defense, and John Ogden and Gordon Fair will spell starting goalie Stave DenHartog...
...some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing all the thermonuclear information that...
...Meanwhile, they will exploit their greater opportunities in weaker Asia. ¶Their threat to Europe will be used to stave off any Western attempt to thwart their designs in the East...
...April, courage could no longer stave off defeat for sick and starving men. On April 9 Bataan fell, on May 6 Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...