Word: avert
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...even less likely candidate for self-reliance. Its barren, eroded soil supports few crops or even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria to avert mass starvation. Though the territory is already densely populated, the government, under a "resettlement" program, sends in truckloads of unwanted blacks from urban areas. Once in Ciskei, many of the new arrivals live in stark tent towns with no schools, shops or running water...
...AVERT YOUR EYES, just briefly, from the tinsel and the lights, And on fair Harvard's president one moment turn your sight. Ensconced in deepest labor within Massachusetts Hall He stares at open letters, then stares long at the wall. The radicals are in Law School, divestiture is dead, Christmas is approaching, and Bok should be abed. He struggles against sleepiness, he fumbles for a pen He picks his head up off the desk and down it falls again...
...letter to the London Times, the Canon of Westminster, the Rev. John Austin Baker, implored the government to be more flexible. "Even at this late hour an attempt could be made to avert a new legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise...
...true story of this infamous would be institution to the eats of someone who had not like myself had the dubious privilege of being here at the time of its formation in the hope, of course, of winning a new convert for the boycott, and thus perhaps helping to avert a tragic repudiation of student activism in the sixties such as acceptance of the CRR would represent. I was quite surprised at the turn the conversation took, for the freshman, rather than being simply a naive tool of the wool-pulling administration, was repeatedly asking an extremely valid question...
...have agreed with the U.S. to avert an accidental outbreak of a nuclear war; we also signed with it a treaty on limiting strategic offensive weapons, which is called SALT I, and in June 1979, after almost seven years of work, a second treaty of the same type. Along with quantitative, this treaty sets qualitative limits to the effort of the sides in the military sphere. The system of SALT treaties has brought the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. to a point beyond which real disarmament, the actual reduction of military confrontation levels, begins...