Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "aggressors" was merely a label applied by conquerors to the conquered. This was echoed by Manhattan's Daily News, which warned U.S. military leaders that they were already being labeled "aggressors" by Russia and that they had better win the next war if they wanted to avoid Tojo's fate...
...golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
...would [also] like to take issue with you on ... the overemphasis of conflict in the human personality. One could easily assume therefrom that mental health is reachable through the elimination of conflict. This is not so. Conflict is as natural to man as his desire to avoid...
...could put himself in a yoke and pull like an ox." In a fight over a rooster, says Tacho proudly, Bernabé grabbed a machete and killed 20 men. But a traitor betrayed him. "They hanged Uncle Bernabé," Tacho sighs. "Remembering him, I always try now to avoid provocation. God knows, nobody wishes less bloodshed than...
Nash maintained that if we can avoid war for three years, we will have within that time a functioning world government. "We will be racing against the economic collapse of all the countries of the world because of their costly preparedness programs," he said...