Word: staving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a compromise course might possibly stave off disaster while minimizing, for the Johnson Administration, the risk of a major war in an election year. But it all had a familiar ring, since McNamara had expressed many of the same hopes about the short-lived junta that preceded Khanh...
...will be somewhat more conservative than President Kennedy. They know that his family has extensive private holdings in ranching and broadcasting, that he is on friendly terms with Texas oilmen and other big businessmen, and that he has boosted Texas by using his influence to seek business and to stave off attacks on the 27½% oil-depletion allowance. And it does him no harm in businessmen's eyes that as a U.S. Senator he voted "right" on labor issues less than half of the time by the estimate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "I expect," said Socony Mobil...
...British general elections were held tomorrow, there is little doubt that Labor would win very substantially," but with the elections months away, the Conservative party has a chance to stave off defeat, Safran said. To win back the favor of the electorate, he added, the Conservative party must "convey the image of new blood, and reverse the image of tiredness...
...effort to stave off the immune reaction, Brigham surgeons have done ten transplants after irradiating the recipients' whole body. But only one nonidentical twin survives. Now Surgeon Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues are relying on drugs alone to suppress the immune reaction, and all of their last four patients who received transplants are still living. So is one of an earlier group whose operation is now a year old. His kidney came from a cadaver...
...stroked by junior Rick Knauft, were seriously threatened by Rutgers in the sprint. While the latter finished at a 35, Knauft went up to a 37 to stave off the fast-closing crew from New Jersey by half a length...