Word: staving
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...British general elections were held tomorrow, there is little doubt that Labor would win very substantially," but with the elections months away, the Conservative party has a chance to stave off defeat, Safran said. To win back the favor of the electorate, he added, the Conservative party must "convey the image of new blood, and reverse the image of tiredness...
...effort to stave off the immune reaction, Brigham surgeons have done ten transplants after irradiating the recipients' whole body. But only one nonidentical twin survives. Now Surgeon Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues are relying on drugs alone to suppress the immune reaction, and all of their last four patients who received transplants are still living. So is one of an earlier group whose operation is now a year old. His kidney came from a cadaver...
...stroked by junior Rick Knauft, were seriously threatened by Rutgers in the sprint. While the latter finished at a 35, Knauft went up to a 37 to stave off the fast-closing crew from New Jersey by half a length...
...final, Pringle went into the last 100 a full body length ahead of Townsend, but he just could not stave off the strong freestyle finish of the Yale swimmer...
...back is curved as a barrel stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...