Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public acts as they affect the whole community the Catholic is bound in conscience to promote the common good and to avoid any seeking of a merely sectarian advantage. He is bound also to recognize the proper scope or independence of the political order...
...dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...denied befriending Liu as a refugee-denied knowing that Liu was a Communist agent. The real issue, said Lei, was whether the government could get away with such a "smear" of honest critics. "All we wished to do is urge the government to implement peaceful reform in order to avoid bloodshed. If the charges against me can be substantiated, I need not mourn my personal fate. But I must mourn the future of my country...
...built-in scope made the new development bank the natural organization to handle the Eisenhower plan for singlehanded, soft-loan social development of Latin America by the U.S. The hope is that inter-American administration can help avoid the kind of situation that currently exists in Peru, where U.S. aid for housing and land reform is being blocked by opposition politicians. The $500 million that the U.S. has promised for the plan will be administered separately from the bank's other activities-as will other future U.S. contributions, expected to total billions before the building job is finished...
Gila monster. The family struggled to clean up their run-down property, meanwhile trying to avoid being cleaned out by a shrewd Indian called Hawkeye (inevitably J. Carrol Naish), who reads the Wall Street Journal...