Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Word. The party leaders want to avoid these dilemmas and play the game as it has always been played in France, as an endless ronde of Premiers, with every middle-ground group getting a chance at office. Predictably, they cried "blackmail'' at De Gaulle's latest threat to deprive France of himself, and some hoped that a reaction might set in among voters challenged once too often to vote yes, or else. But pre-referendum polls show De Gaulle with a comfortable 67% majority, and opposition speakers find it necessary to protest that they...
...church, U.S. Buddhism owes part of its current health to some shrewd borrowing from U.S. Christianity. To hold their largely Japanese-American membership-which yearly becomes more American and less Japanese-most congregations are turning from Japanese to English in their services, call themselves churches rather than temples to avoid identification with the occult. Services are held on Sunday, although all days are holy to Buddhists. The Buddhist Church of Seattle sponsors a Boy Scout troop, a day nursery, a Sunday school and a drum and bugle corps...
...victim here," he said. "No matter what the country has done to me, it has done something much worse to itself. By continuing to avoid the reality of the black man, it has lost its grip on reality altogether...
Somehow, candidate Kennedy manages to avoid any public display of overconfidence. When questioned, he replies, "I have worked two years for this election, I will not let up in the last few weeks." But away from the ears of votes and reporters, when a local political boss said, "Well, Ted, we sure carried East Boston in that primary, 13,751 to 78," Ted winked and replied, "we'll find those...
...this furious talk. It is rather that the President, by failinp to make sure the electorate is sufficiently aware of just how complicated issues like Cuba are, has failed also to stifle public suspicions that Democrats are always appeasing someone. Mr. Kennedy's calculation that he should avoid educating the people to painful realizations in election years is going to backfire badly...