Word: staving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final, Pringle went into the last 100 a full body length ahead of Townsend, but he just could not stave off the strong freestyle finish of the Yale swimmer...
...back is curved as a barrel stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
...some record for a monarch who once seemed ineffectual and powerless to stave off the growing discontent of Iran's poor masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the eve of the big referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah...
...ought to know: almost from the moment he was proclaimed King in 1952, assassins incited by Nasser propaganda have been gunning for him. In the decade since, Hussein has struggled manfully to develop his little land; today he happily supplies Yemen's royalists with money and munitions to stave off a Nasser victory that might sweep away the fruits of progress in his own country...
Dunster scoring is generally light, but the defense sparked by the big kicks of fullbacks Tony Olivieri and Tod Baker and the hustle of center halfback Andy Shaffer has managed to stave off late scoring threats...