Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Uruguay with tough-minded efficiency. They serve on the nine-man Council of Government, whose rotating chairman is Uruguay's equivalent to President. Nardone, the current chairman, and Haedo, who takes over March 1, together pushed through a successful program to save the country from spiraling inflation. To avoid the feast-or-famine trade cycles associated with wool, traditionally Uruguay's No. 1 export, Nardone and Haedo began by modernizing cattle ranching and saw 1960 meat exports more than double the 1959 total. Next they aimed at crippling strikes, set up a government arbitration board that increased some...
...after a ten-day trip that will include visits to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benediktos in Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul. The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to stay at Rome's stately Villa della Camilluccia, residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added...
...balance of the lyrics, working with obsessive intensity ; when he is really going strong, he feels ice-cold, has been known to light a fire in the middle of a heat wave while writing. Over the years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities of Oscar Hammerstein. At their best, his lyrics are like expertly cut glass, as in these lines...
...developed system of coordination. In any event that . . .The work of Crew Manager was infinitely time assuming. Most of my afternoons in college were one of the boat houses, either Newell or Weld. The spring season, being out of doors, was delightful although manager had to be nimble to avoid being pushed into water by one of the shells as it was carried to and the boat house. One time I was not fast enough and I down in the Charles River, with all my clothes on in the space between the float and the runways of Newell. I remember...
...these pleas O'Connor reminds one of Kennedy, which is no accident. Just as Kennedy created an FDR image, O'Connor did not avoid giving the electorate the impression that he and the junior senator were similar. On the experience issue which hit O'Connor often, he retorted, "I think this state has done well on the young senators it has sent to Washington: John Kennedy at 35 (my age) and Cabot Lodge at 34 (one year younger than...