Word: staving
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...Crimson held B.C. scoreless in the first period, but they could not stave off B.C.'s rushes in the second period and they allowed three goals...
Scared to Speak. If complacency has helped to stave off 20th century safety precautions underground, economics has been an even more formidable barrier...
...foregoing cheap sentiment is designed to stave off consideration of the actual event. Max Adrian is an ingratiating performer and a hardworking actor, and his night of Shavian lore (mostly letters and autobiographical fragments) really works. If it does not, on the other hand, make Shaw's presence a more vivid one, it is because the subject's real life was as a writer rather than a personality, a writer sufficiently great that his prose truly outshone his person. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that a portrayal will seem to diminish Shaw's stature as much as it throws...
...France and a stampede for gold that culminated in the worst international money crisis since the 1930s. A serious slip at any crucial point along the line could have wrecked the wobbly system of international finance, bringing wholesale currency devaluations and economic chaos. Last week the bankers tried to stave off another incipient crisis almost before the world realized that there was one brewing...
...Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were on the streets...