Word: averted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were striking not at the railroads but at the U.S. Government, which seized the roads last August and put them under Army control, to avert just such a strike. For 21 months, the union had been pressing for 48 hours' pay for a 40-hour work week (the same increase given a million non-operating employees in 1949), while the railroads' best offer had been 44 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. Now that a wage-price freeze seemed imminent, explained union officers, the workers could wait no longer, and so they had gone...
...what shall be done to avert the danger of a third world war, I must say that what you are concocting will not ward off that threat. On the contrary, that threat will grow. Your actions are oil on that fire...
...West might still avert disaster through accelerated rearmament and more aid to have-not peoples, provided that Russia was not yet ready for total...
...other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration of ACTH is necessary, as in cases of arthritis, the dangers inherent in the new drug still seem to threaten any lasting...
Yale also has a 7 p.m. deadline, but its College-masters and Campus police are inclined to avert their eyes when minor infractions come to light. Especially on weekends, parties are allowed to run considerably beyond the closing hour...