Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Huskies for three quick goals and sophomores Dave Hynes and Bob McManama added two more after only six minutes of play to end the game for Northeastern. When Cavanagh fed DeMichele for Harvard's sixth goal at 1:10 of the second period, the Huskies forgot about trying to avert a shutout, and tried to salvage the evening with a fight...
...motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge...
...King seemed sad but not apologetic about the slaughter. "We tolerated a great deal in the hope that we could avert such a disaster," he said. "There was an explosion and it could not be averted." Most significant, Hussein appears ready to risk yet another explosion if the fedayeen challenge his authority again. Said the beleaguered King, who has outlawed guerrilla leaders George Habash of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Nayef Hawatmeh of the even more extreme Popular Democratic Front: "There will be law and order in this country. Jordan will never tolerate a state...
...committee came in for gentle gibing from some of the newsmen, but it raised morale and helped to avert a serious health crisis. It may also have saved some lives. Hussein's trigger-happy Bedouins were constantly threatening to shoot photographers who tried to film the fighting from the hotel. The committee finally persuaded the photographers to stow their cameras until the situation improved...
...recollection of his sons, in life and death, is clearly an attempt by the author to weave some sort of protective magic around them. Hemingway was an openly superstitious man. But anyone with children will find that easy to forgive. What father does not secretly believe he can avert tragedy by imagining it in advance, or hope that he can protect his children by holding them steadily, faithfully in mind and heart...