Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...faith that characterized his whole approach to the belated race: much of the delegate support for Kennedy sprang not from any real belief in Kennedy as the best possible candidate, but from politicians' normal desire to get with the winner in time to earn rewards or at least avoid punishments. Once the convention saw that Kennedy was not going to run away with the nomination on the first or second ballot, his support would start melting away, and the convention would then turn to Lyndon Johnson as the best qualified candidate?so ran Johnson's hopes. * "I think...
Under the dust-red light of a nearly full moon, thousands of Europeans flocked to the "Beach," the starting point of ferries making the two-mile run across the mighty river to Brazzaville in French Congo. Normally, the ferries operate only in daylight to avoid being swept downstream into the perilous rapids, but the terrified whites crowded onto paddle-wheel steamers, motorboats, skiffs-anything that would float-in their panicky flight...
...avoid giving the impression that the U.S. was concerned more over property losses than violation of broad international principles, the State Department's note made no mention of Castro's confiscation of the property of U.S. citizens...
...Avoid a Caesarean? In the U.S., only at New York City's Kings County Hospital has the vacuum extractor received extensive trial. Dr. Vincent Tricomi and colleagues have used it in 125 births since last September. Keenly aware of the suspicious attitude of the profession generally, they have been even more conservative than the British in selection of cases. But they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic...
...Weavers-three men and a girl-were organized by Pete Seeger more than a decade ago, and their success has made them the most widely imitated group in the business. Although they compose some of their own materials, they stick closely to folk tradition, avoid the pop styling that some other groups favor. Their most famous numbers: Good Night, Irene and On Top of Old Smoky...