Word: staving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government, however, is overwhelmed just trying to deliver food and medicine to stave off death and disease; it also has to worry about reports of another cyclone building up in the Bay of Bengal. Reconstruction efforts are a lesser priority, a fact that has upset Ujantia's elders. "If we don't plant soon," says Abdur Rahman, a small landowner, "we will have no crop next season. There will be only starvation." The screams of the babies at dawn are destined to grow louder...
...River valley, a few miles inside the Iranian border. The Iranian army provides shelter, bread every day, and a crude dispensary gives basic medical help, especially against rampant dysentery caused by the lack of clean drinking water. But Omar's family must make do with only one blanket to stave off the frigid nights. The terrible cold and disease claim young lives every day, a tragedy underscored by the cemetery of small, fresh graves on a grassy knoll above the camp. A red wash of wild poppies is in bloom, a sad bouquet expressing heaven's remorse...
Vellucci has convinced the city to place a steel sheet around the base of the Freedom Tree II to stave off the vicious vandals. But if Cambridge really wants to protect this blossom of beauty from its pernicious persecutors, it needs to go further...
...environmental concerns, ranking below more immediate problems like waste disposal, pollution and the disappearance of natural areas. With no pressure from below and little inclination to move at the top, the Administration is likely to keep the warming issue on a low boil. Will that be enough to stave off a change in the weather? Keep an eye on the thermometer...
Weld, who needed exactly 14 votes in order to stave off the threat, barely pulled off his victory by winning 14 of the 16 possible Republican senators' votes. All 24 Democratic senators voted against...