Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...
...goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked getting a balisong (switchblade) between his ribs...
...court's hottest case posed a particularly important question: Can an employer close a plant entirely to avoid unionization? The answer is vital to multiplant textile manufacturers who have moved South in search of low-wage and largely nonunion labor. It is equally vital to the Textile Workers Union of America, still trying to organize Southern mill hands...
...Samuel Miller of the Harvard Divinity School. One measure of a healthy faith, he said, is "its ability to remain in relation to the threatening aspects of reality without succumbing to fear, shame, anxiety or hostility. An unhealthy religion runs away, becomes obsessed with a part in order to avoid the whole. The body is denied for the soul's sake; the future becomes so fascinating that it blots out the present; all truth is limited to the Bible. A healthy religion unites existence, an unhealthy one divides...
Several boats tried to avoid the dismasting problem by replacing their masts by their booms--which cleared most of the bridges. With their salls thus shortened, however, they were quickly outdistanced by the other boats, and finished well behind...