Word: staving
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...some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing all the thermonuclear information that...
...Meanwhile, they will exploit their greater opportunities in weaker Asia. ¶Their threat to Europe will be used to stave off any Western attempt to thwart their designs in the East...
Through five weeks of debate and backroom maneuvering, the Israelis strove desperately to stave off the vote. Premier David Ben-Gurion denied outright that the raiders were Israeli soldiers, as alleged by the U.N. truce supervision chief, Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike...
...April, courage could no longer stave off defeat for sick and starving men. On April 9 Bataan fell, on May 6 Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...
...same omission in protection as its predecessor: it contains no effective provision to deal with an employer who breaks the law while fighting attempts of a union to organize his factory. Since an unfair practices suit requires at least a year to settle, an obstructionist employer can easily stave off union organization with delays. Even should the union ultimately win its suit against him, attempts to organize are usually quashed by time...