Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal family has already been economizing somewhat. To avoid the high prices of London food shops, the palace has begun purchasing food from a military commissary. Only last month, Philip sold his 63-ft. yawl Bloodhound. Whenever the Queen moves from one residence to another, she takes most of the staff with her to avoid having to keep servants at several places...
...high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into an ideological corner...
...effort to ascertain whether any of us had been stricken down yet. I began to think it might be safer to avoid them...
When asked if the meeting had been called to avoid the kind of confrontation which the November Action Coalition organized at M. I. T., Goldberg said that the situation in his department is different from what was the case at M. I. T.'s Instrumentation Labs...
...CRIMSON strategy was clear from the start- avoid middle guard Jane Trowbridge. Trowbridge was a nemesis last fall when she continually stopped flashy, though ineffective, halfback Dick Paisner before he had a chance to make any moves. She also hindered the CRIMSON'S ominous passing attack...