Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation (a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes...
...were pressuring Kennedy on Vandiver's behalf. The news was as much a surprise to Vandiver, who wants to finish out his two remaining years in the statehouse, as it was to Kennedy himself, who had no intention of naming a segregationist to the sensitive Army job. To avoid embarrassment all round, Kennedy at first allowed that Vandiver was "under consideration," then went through the motions of calling the Governor to ask if he would like the job -but let him understand that the right answer was no.* Vandiver agreeably begged off; just as agreeably, Kennedy wrote that when...
...into the poorer sections. The Pathet Lao Communists have played shrewdly on these feelings, have won much support by promising tribal autonomy when they take over the country (after which they will, of course, revoke the autonomy). Though their leaders are mostly dedicated Communists, the Pathet Lao have generally avoided terror tactics, and even share the general Laotian proclivity for rice-wine bouts and fertility festivals. They have many friends among the peasants and tribesmen, who feed them and keep them warned about military movements. Well trained and armed by North Viet Nam, the Pathet Lao usually travel in bands...
...himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...
...Influence. Chairman Dodd urged his scholars to shun other modern Englishings of the Bible.* "They can't help being a bad influence," he said. "Either you're tempted, unconsciously, to copy the wording, or else in your efforts to avoid copying, you are hampered in your free choice of words...