Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army hopes that big employers will let their men off in staggered sections (for two or three hours, at least), thus avoid jamming up registration places...
...spectacle of the last world war fitted me with horror. I came out of it with one conviction: we must at all costs avoid any renewal of such atrocities. . . . This is the vow I made, a solemn vow: "I swear I shall always do everything in my power to prevent the outbreak of another...
Officials disclosed that, in classifying and selecting the 16,404,000 registrants for potential military service, there will be a "most liberal" interpretation of the term "dependent" to avoid dislocation of the nation's social and economic structure...
...organizers of the Student Defense League were anxious to avoid being branded at the start as a war group. This may remain their intention, but the League as a whole lost a good chance when it shouted down a resolution in favor of keeping American forces in this hemisphere." (From an editorial called "Defend and Preserve...
...right so long as they are real peace groups, don't waste all their energy fighting each other, and act as a healthy balance wheel for such organizations as the Student Defense League, with its thinly-veiled interventionist stand. It is up to the Marx-Stange element to avoid being obstructionist and taking a wholly negative stand, opposing everything but their own domestic policy, and claiming that that is the cure-all for America's troubles. Likewise, the Gottlieb group will have to keep its head, recognize the difference between aid to England for our defense...