Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor opponent. Though Maude last week was the odds-on favorite, fellow Tories feared that the presence of a vigorous Liberal candidate and two extremists in the race might seriously cut into Conservative strength. Maude was helped by a gentleman's agreement among all the candidates to avoid dragging Profumo into the campaign. In any event, the great majority of voters seemed unperturbed by disclosures of vice in high places...
...flight of French settlers - out of 1,000,000 only about 100,000 remained - deprived the country of nearly all doctors, civil servants, teachers and technicians. Most observers expected either a harsh military dictatorship or total anarchy. Though Ben Bella is a dictator, he has so far managed to avoid both extremes and rules not so much as a doctrinaire socialist, which he once seemed to be, but as a pragmatic politician...
...racial incidents. In 1955 the City News Bureau spelled out its own policy, which has been taken over as an informal code by the mass media in the city. The code calls for responsible treatment of stories, brevity, the absence of superlatives or inflammatory adjectives, and warns reporters to avoid use of the word riot. "If riots actually occur," says the code, "we should be in a position that no charge of riot incitement can be placed against us." Radio and TV stations, which tend to make a Holly wood set of many a news story stage, have gone along...
...moved by one small Negro girl's drawing of herself in New Orleans as "a lonely blackbird, cautiously winging her way toward the school," he observed that the youngest children show the least strain. In New Orleans, white six-year-olds gravely promised their parents to avoid Negro children-and then happily skipped rope with them as soon as they got to school. Equally important, the world of school shut out adult rioters; all they did was create more school spirit. "Frantz School will survive," sang the kids in New Orleans...
These Harvard boys have developed an impregnable line of defense, so the idea is to avoid these entirely. You may compare this to the winning of a pet dog. There is no point in trying to match nails and teeth, but it is a relatively simple matter to turn him on his back and tickle his tummy. It is then easy to slip a collar...