Word: staving
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...13th month of existence, was no longer in acute danger of disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
From defeat the Crimson stave...
Partly from envy and partly from desperate need, sometimes cynically and sometimes hopefully, the world asked what its wealthiest nation would do with its riches. Whether the well-fed U.S. could win a hungry world for democracy depended largely on what sacrifices the U.S. would make to stave off world famine...
...more constructive approach to colonial questions. Last week Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin lent new importance to the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations by announcing that he would go in person to Cairo to participate in revision of the basic treaty between the two countries. Bevin's promise might stave off a possible Egyptian move to call U.N.'s attention to the presence of British troops in Egypt...
...Jayvee game which opened Saturday's program was almost as close as the Varsity contest; the score was even closer. Coach Al McCoy's charges just managed to stave off a last-minutes Jumbo drive to win their second game of the season by a score...