Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid mob scenes and gatecrashing, tickets will not be sold at the door. All dances run from 8:30 to 12 p.m. at Memorial Hall. George Graham's orchestra will provide music...
Trying to avoid offending anybody, the Regents adopted this "nondenominational" compromise: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Many school boards adopted the prayer. Normally it was spoken by the class in unison at the start of each school day, with the teacher leading the recitation. In keeping with state court decisions, the Regents notified school authorities that no child could be compelled to say the prayer, and that any child had the right to be excused from the room while the prayer was being...
...what the Chinese meant by substituting Khrushchev's name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively engaged in containing China's expansionist policies and undermining its influence with Asian Communist parties...
...Chicago, where he spent his nights studying accounting at Northwestern University; he worked days as clerk for a sausage-casing importer. Without finishing college, he joined a small firm of accountants, became a partner in three years, sole owner in 18. When he sold out in 1955 (to avoid possible conflict of interest with Government duties), his firm stood among the top accounting houses...
...read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between. What does is ill-written blather on one of two subjects: 1) the downtrodden state of artists in the U.S. (and their uptrodden bliss in Europe), and 2) how the world's troubles would be solved if everyone would be nice to everyone else...