Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of all, I wanted to avoid my own sense of helplessness and frustration. But I had a responsibility to carry out, so I did my duty, and after dinner I fled, paroled until next week...
Every time I think about Maritza I feel the same sadness and disenchantment, as well as a pervading sense of guilt. I remember walking back to Harvard that evening, overwhelmed by the knowledge I could no longer avoid: I hate myself for not being able to cope with an apathetic eight-year-old to whom I'm supposed to be a good example. I had realized that long before that night, but I didn't want to admit--even to myself--that I had failed as a Big Sister...
...necessarily a defeat, since 61% want him to run for office again next year. Alexander Tennant, Massachusetts G.O.P. state committee director, says the political issue is "not Barney Frank's sex life but whether the Congressman broke the law." Gobie says he did, by abusing congressional immunity to avoid paying Gobie's parking tickets, a charge Frank denies...
Most of Eastern Europe followed the lead of Moscow, which attempted to avoid intra-alliance finger pointing and instead blamed Bonn. As for Hungary, the Soviets displayed cautious sympathy. In an interview with the BBC, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that Hungary was "in a Catch-22 situation. On the one hand, it had an agreement with the ((German Democratic Republic)) not to allow G.D.R. citizens to travel to a third country. On the other hand, it had all these people there. It was a very difficult, very unusual situation...
...avoid mistakes we'll have a good chance," Fried said. "We just need to put it all together this weekend...