Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid the "twin terrors of the pulpit" the minister must learn to combine what seems to be an obsolete past with the criteria of the present, Miller explained. Only then can he expect to find the point of his work again and be worthy of its challenge...
...president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months of 1959 to 702 flights, compared with 467 for the same period last year...
...rocket's trajectory. As a hedge they used the Russian preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon on Jan. 3, 1959 and soared on into a solar orbit...
...University has become a sanctuary where one can avoid sectarian evangelism--a temple where the representatives of all creeds say prayers before the altar of Tolerance before laying their votive scholarship on the altar of Truth...
...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...