Word: staved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamie, who is within striking distance of Kerry in the bitterly fought Senate race, is now seen as the Republican Party's best chance to gain a seat away from the Democrats and to stave off expected gains by the opposition party...
Together, the statements appeared to complicate the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' desperate effort to stave off the second official price reduction in the past 19 months...
...North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. stiffened his back as he prepared to block the resurgence of Republican Jesse A. Helms in their Senate battle. And right here at home, one got the feeling that Lt. Gov. John E. Kerry had some more reserves in two to help stave off the second-half comeback of Massachusetts' own Gipper, Ray Shamie...
Administration officials contend that the Salvadoran army is running low on ammunition to stave off Communist guerrillas who might try to disrupt the nation's runoff presidential election scheduled for May 6. At week's end Reagan extended $32 million of emergency help to El Salvador under standing authority conferred by the Arms Export Control Act. If Congress votes no new money for the contras, however, U.S. funding for them will run out in a matter of weeks and their guerrilla war will have to be drastically scaled down. The White House would consider that equivalent to notifying Nicaragua that...
...stark; one has one's music and the Cabbage Patch too. Yet it is the news of the day that occupies most of the time, filling the hours as suddenly as helium. We may be wary of the press, but we are crazy for the news. Why? To stave off boredom, provide relief from self-absorption? There we sit, behind the page, before the television screen, nestled in the assumption that anything new must be valuable...