Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were hesitant about endorsing the conference. But when French Premier Pierre Mendès-France said that he needed U.S. support to avoid unnecessary concessions, Washington sent Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith to Geneva to stiffen...
...arrest of 135 youngsters at Ocean City, Md., accused of violating a midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew, which the city council had imposed to avoid repetition of last year's riot...
...foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect image, despite Chevy disclaimers), Oldsmobile's F85 and Starfire (odes to the jet age). And there are more to come...
...avoid the delays, entanglements and possible criticisms involved in getting funds for the project from Congress, Mrs. Kennedy decided to rely on private donors. More than 150 works of art, or the funds to buy them, have been donated...
...nowadays, antitrust frequently means antimerger. Many businessmen are confused and worried about two court decisions in the past year that have given the Government broad authority to block virtually any corporate merger that so much as threatens to lessen competition even on a local level. "The only way to avoid antitrust action nowadays," grumbles a leading Chicago lawyer, "is to have two companies so small that they don't even matter...