Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...campaign strategy Nixon intended to follow. The basic decision was to try to erase the public's old image of a highly partisan Richard Nixon and substitute a new statesmanlike image to appeal to independents. On the trip, Nixon repeated again and again that he intended to "avoid personalities" during the campaign and "leave the low road to him"-meaning Jack Kennedy, though sometimes, when he accused Kennedy of buying the labor vote, it took a sensitive altimeter to know when the road was low or high. He quickly resumed a high. "The thing I hope you will...
...Soviet Union, on the other hand, has found an enviable chance to relax, its only task being to avoid letting the broad, bland smile behind its words become too blatant. Mr. Kuznetzov and Mr. Khrushchev have only to fill in a silence or two with a statement like "As is well known, the Soviet Republics have no aggressive desires against other peoples, or "As is well known, the Soviet Government is willing to resist all forms of imperialism, wherever they may appear"; they may then cross their hands and sit back in a posture of absolutely unassailable virtue. After...
...effective in the age of ballistic missiles and nuclear destruction, the Thors must be capable of nearly instant action. But to avoid a calamitous mis take, there must be every possible safeguard. The actual procedure for ordering the launching of a Thor missile has both speed and precautions...
...cheerful second-half prospect, in the eyes of Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Said Alexander: "With the consumer buying as he is, and with inventories worked down further, I think there is a good chance for an improvement this fall, and that we may avoid turning in the direction of recession...
...ideal solution is to make a new version of one of the better shows (such as La Belle Helene): in Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...