Word: staving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...
...military mission to the late Tsar Nicholas II-as a step in desperate preparation for World War I, which broke out a few weeks later. Last week, now one of Britain's wisest naval strategists, he set out for Moscow again-in a desperate effort to stave off World...
Obviously Danzigers were not raising an Army for attacking nearby Poland; what they hoped to be able to do was to stave off the Polish Army until German forces from East Prussia could cross the Nogat and come to their relief...
Over the sprawling war map of Asia last week the soldiers of the Emperor of Japan and the men of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fought on a hundred different fronts. While Chinese regulars tried to stave off further Japanese pushes to the West, guerrillas weaved in and out of Japanese lines, attacked isolated garrisons, cut railroad and telegraph lines...
...sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats but I'm worried about how to look atter them." Next time he took to drink, Sarah "suddenly took a notion that I could beat the stuffin out of him, and I did. I got a barrel stave and I turned him across the table bench and I blistered his rump...