Word: staving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulldozing. In 1958 the U.S. tried to stave off the coffee chaos by helping to set up a Coffee Study Group among all major coffee-producing countries; the effort failed because the Study Group's export quotas were not made binding. Delegates to the current U.N. conference all want a tougher international control system. The most promising plan calls for a five-year stabilization of coffee prices at the present level, or slightly higher...
...since then. Crump has steadfastly insisted on his innocence, maintaining that police used brutality to wring a false confession out of him. Because of involved legal technicalities, the fact that Tillman was a known dope addict, and Crump's charge of a forced confession, he has managed to stave off the executioner by carrying his appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, gaining 41 continuances and one retrial (he was convicted again) and evading 14 dates with the chair-one just seven hours away...
Claims that a few capsules of safflower oil taken daily will stave off heart disease are so misleading that they have fallen under Government ban. But polyunsaturates in moderate amounts may be beneficial, so many leading U.S. food processors are supplying new fats in new forms to meet a growing demand...
...Congress will almost certainly do just that, probably by the 15% to 20% that it usually lops off aid bills. But Kennedy's hope is to stave off deeper cuts in the face of general congressional weariness with foreign aid. To assuage the aid program's critics, he pointed out that the Administration's new aid program began only four months ago and has not had time to operate perfectly. Though he is sending a whole battery of top lieutenants to preach the new program's virtues to Congress, the chief job of making reforms...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...