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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three in Berlin, including famed Tempelhof, which was ringed by buildings. Tunner would use just three fields this time: at the West German end, the two closest to Berlin in the central air corridor, and in Berlin, unobstructed Tegel Airport in the French sector. Using these three fields would avoid the 5,000-ft. climb to clear mountains, cut the average distance nearly in half, permit the planes to flow toward Tegel at a mere 500 ft., returning in a wide northern loop to approach their home fields from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Airlift Plan | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Missionaries Colton and Harris have attracted prospects by organizing an English-language class and a softball team, sometimes prepare the way for interviews by leaving folders in mailboxes. In a first conversation, they avoid Mormon doctrine ; in the second, they are likely to put forward some Mormon ideas and to end by saying: "We know we can't convince you, but we'd like to ask you to make the effort to ask God about the truth of what we are saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mission to Europe | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...currently conceived, is not Mann ist mann. But it is a rollicking noisy and important show. Do see it of course--but, oh yes, do, also, if you can, avoid rehersals

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Man's A Man | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Awake & Sing | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities agree that any further bomb testing will be done underground to avoid contaminating the atmosphere or the ocean, a force of hard-rock miners is busily digging tunnels into the mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Site | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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