Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's approach to the grass problem has always been to put Buildings and Grounds crews at work stringing up wire fences around the green patches in the Yard, in the hope that students, like so many cows, would avoid the barriers. Harvard students, fortunately, are more imaginative than cows, and if their elders in the Administration were as original as President Beadle, the growth of Harvard grass might now be assured...
Grocer's Gripe. Every capital in the world has its gripes about highhanded diplomats who use their immunity to avoid legal reckoning. In Bonn the problem is heightened by the fact that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
...narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport, but corralled the newsman as a "trouble maker." Realizing that immunity can be abused, British...
...arrival, a Boeing 707 jet approaching Saigon's airport was winged by a .30-cal. bullet that punctured an oil line, forcing the craft to land on three engines. Playing it safe, McNamara's silver Air Force jet swooped in at a steep angle to avoid ground fire...
Boston pays teachers on a par with its richer suburbs, but working conditions are antiquated. Teachers must still munch lunch at their desks while policing the kids. Young teachers avoid Boston, and the average age of teachers is close to 50. Apathy, fed by authoritarian administrators, wreathes the system like a cloud of poison...