Word: staving
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PRESIDENT NIXON'S eleventh-hour attempt to stave off rejection of the Carswell nomination was an unusual effort to equate Senate opposition to the President's will with an attack on presidential powers and a threat to the system of checks and balances...
Rayner (177) and Scanlon (190), both led throughout their bouts, but had to stave off late charges by Rutgers' Terry Murphy and Bob Dunbar...
Harvard's sophomore forward Brian Newmark pulled down five rebounds and scored two three-point plays late in the second half yesterday afternoon in the IAB to stave off Navy's comeback attempt and secure a Crimson basketball victory...
...lawyers to win freedom for their sons, while the same ghetto class accepts induction like bad medicine. And the student deferment system remains intact. Confrontation with the I-A status is still postponed as it was before. until after graduation. The unofficial strings that post-graduates have pulled to stave off the draft entirely can still be pulled...
...that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small stockholders raised an outcry against the church when Pantanella, a big flour-milling firm, cut the book value of its shares by 75% to stave off a possible financial collapse...