Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's health is excellent, except for his failing eyesight. He has had an operation for a cataract on one eye, and vision in the other is dim. Yet vanity makes him try to avoid wearing glasses in public. At last week's funeral of ex-President René Coty, De Gaulle walked ponderously up to the stairs leading to the platform. He put on his glasses and momentarily studied the steps, then whipped the glasses off and strode giraffe-like toward the top. Sure enough, he stumbled over an unnoticed ridge en route...
...such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder. Recalling her mother's expression when she failed, one girl says: "I might have been telling her that I was having a baby." Many parents buy their...
...delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen are the best people on earth...
...other side of the picture, Yovicsin will once again have the services of Mike Bassett at his disposal. Bassett next year will probably be second only to Gary Wood of Cornell in consistency and team contribution. If he can avoid the early-injury fate of Charlie Ravenel and Ted Halaby the Crimson will have experienced, dependable leadership. Bill Grana returns at fullback, giving Harvard at least one superb runner and blocker. Stan Yastrzemski should be an adequate replacement for senior fullback Fred Barti on the second team...
Besides the need to avoid a nuclear war, an aggressive Communist China is a danger to both countries: to the U.S. in India, where miniaturization might turn "that bright, shining example of democracy on the sub-continent" into a dictatorship; and to Russia in Siberia, "a handsome country" where "Mao-Testing could put 300 million Chinese and still have 300 million left at home...