Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common-law wife, a nightclub entertainer named Rogelia Mendoza. Last week, some three months before his term expired, Mercader was hustled out of prison and aboard an airliner to Cuba, a procedure that enabled the Mexican government to get rid of an undesirable character and also to avoid demonstrations. The final proof, if any were needed, that Mercader -now greying, beefy and 46-had always been a Stalinist agent was supplied by his traveling companions: two husky "diplomats" from Communist Czechoslovakia...
...Impenitent. Britain's Harold Macmillan moved skillfully to avoid formal public condemnation of South Africa. Before the conference sessions began, he invited his Commonwealth colleagues to a weekend at Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers. In a series of tête-a-tête he won agreement to avoid open discussion of South Africa's problems at the conference's plenary meetings; in return, South African External Affairs Minister Eric Louw, substituting for recuperating Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, agreed to discuss the matter with other Commonwealth leaders informally...
...same old National Assembly still in session and long-windedly debating constitutional changes. In Pusan, Taegu, and Seoul itself, they staged new demonstrations demanding dissolution of the Assembly. Army Boss Lieut. General Song Yo Chan called out armored cars, tanks and tear gas, but ordered his troops to avoid strong-arm tactics. "The army will stay aloof from politics," declared the government. As for the hated Assembly, it was willing to bring charges against five of its Liberal Party members and expel them. But the legislators, pro and anti Rhee alike, seemed in no hurry to vote themselves...
Even at Harvard, which requires three achievement tests (most colleges ask none), the applicant can skip English if he is weak in it. "Where does [this] leave the teacher of senior English? Completely out of the running." And so Marson quit to avoid being little more than "a class room baby sitter...
...Barbarians, about a Celtic prince named Ravic (Jack Palance) who lived 2,100 years ago, but was able to get around with modern speed: in the first one-hour episode alone he is captured by the Carthaginians, made a galley slave, sees his beloved sister commit suicide to avoid dishonor, leads a revolt, is recaptured and sentenced to be crucified, is saved by a voluptuous Carthaginian princess, escapes in a trireme, and becomes a pirate...