Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downing holds that a knowledge of the exchange regulations and currency values of each country in which the student visits is a sure way to save money and avoid trouble at the customs office. Since American money brings considerably more than par value on the black market in certain countries, currency regulations require tourists to show customs inspectors how much they hold in travellers' checks, dollars, and local currencies, wherever they cross a border...
...sincerely hope that we can avoid strife, but we cannot avoid striving for what is right...
...doing so, few could avoid fascinated and furtive speculation as to just how much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already...
Most of the big brushes of French painting-Matisse, Braque, Rouault and Dufy-were not competing. Partly to avoid discouraging lesser-knowns, they had not been invited. The situation with regard to the biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera...
Speaking about the proposed North Atlantic Pact, he said that the current European situation was similar to the one in 1939. The Allies might have prevented a war then by standing up to Nazi aggression. In the same way the United States can now avoid a conflict by not buckling before Russia...