Word: stave
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort to stave off social unrest...
...long tee shot. Nicklaus was tied for the lead the first day, but was alone at the top through the remaining three rounds. His score after each round was a new tournament record, and he needed every stroke to stave off the direct challenge of his surprising playing partner, Japan's Isao Aoki. Nicklaus, who admitted afterward that he too had come to doubt his ability, birdied the final two holes, nerveless as of old. His winning score of 272 (to Aoki's 274) broke by three strokes the U.S. Open record he had shared with Lee Trevino...
...Beatles records," admits Madness Organ Player Mike Barson. "I reckon they're pretty good, but a bit wimpy." Observes the Specials' Panter: "I think the Rolling Stones have been playing Honky Tonk Women for the past ten years. It must be quite tedious for them." To stave off occupational hazards, the Specials have formed their own label, 2 Tone, which has no offices, no secretaries and no official phone number, but which nevertheless has managed to sign up a diversity of new bands like the Beat and the Body Snatchers. 2 Tone, in fact, released Madness...
...could probably speculate about Fosse's distortion, fantasy and death-wishing. But I won't. It's the responsibility of the artist to supply his audience with some sort of coherent overview--even if it's a warped overview, even if he is creating in a desperate attempt to stave off despair or insanity. Silly thought: When Bob Fosse filmed Joe Gideon filming himself in a hospital bed, did he glance uneasily over his own shoulder...
...followed by a bare week his own application of the Soviet veto to an almost identically worded resolution during a 13 to 2 vote in the Security Council. Only a day before the Afghan resolution, in fact, Troyanovsky had used another veto-the Soviet Union's 114th-to stave off an otherwise successful U.S. drive to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran...