Word: staving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...food-rich West has enough conventional resources to stave off starvation on less fortunate continents long enough for existing farm technology-plus increasing birth control-to restore the balance between food and people. What then? Says Harvard's Revelle: "One cannot go to India without feeling that the average Indian is a prisoner of biology and environment. The problem of development is giving these human beings the freedom they need. They will use it very well." America's fabulous farm underpinnings have conferred that freedom-and power-on its people. With carrot and stick, the U.S. now offers...
Heath will succeed Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as Godkin Lecturer. At Harvard last March, Heller call- ed on President Johnson to raise taxes to stave off inflation. In his last lecture, the University of Minnesota professor outlined for the first time his much-discussed plan to disburse a small percentage of federal income tax revenues to the states
Coach Johnny Lee's Harvard freshmen finished their undefeated season by beating Yale 18-12 in the preliminary, as heavyweight Bob Panoff came from behind to stave...
...found himself with a power base that inevitably drew him into Saigon's politics. He became a protege of goateed General Nguyen Khanh, who promoted Air Commodore Ky to the Anglicized altitude of air vice-marshal. In return, Ky twice scrambled his Skyraiders over Saigon to stave off coup attempts against Khanh's 'government-once even resorting to the cold threat to flatten Saigon with bombs if the rebels refused to cease and desist. Ky probably would not have carried out the threat, but the plotters could never be sure. They ceased and desisted...
After waltzing through the first two games. Harvard's Steve Simpson (five) had to stave off Fred Levin's late rally to salvage a 15-5, 15-9, 8-15, 18-14 victory...