Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charles Duan '04, however, said he was indifferent to the parents' presence, but that he tried to avoid the long lines at Annenberg...
With Dartmouth down 21-0 in the second quarter, Harvard looked to put some more points on the board, hoping to avoid a Cornell-like breakdown. The Big Green decided to use some trickery to foul up the Harvard defense that had stifled its offensive attacks...
...confrontation line. The occupation soldiers attacked them. We heard youths asking for help. We did not hear the sounds of gunfire. The Israeli soldiers used guns with silencers. We were unable to do the late-afternoon prayer in a mosque, so we prayed in the open. We tried to avoid being shot by snipers at the City Inn Hotel and the building next to it. After sunset, quiet prevailed. We went to the mosque and performed the evening prayer. After that we went to visit the wounded...
...Cole attack, the group met three times. "We were in crisis mode," says a member. Last week the group spotted a threat from an undetermined source against U.S. citizens in Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula and the gulf, and the State Department issued a warning to Americans to avoid those regions. "It could be a threat from a variety of groups," says the CSG member. "Al-Qaeda, Hizballah, the Jerusalem Warriors--all sorts of scum...
...were flummoxed by the digital camera of the wire-service photographer and seemed uncomfortable at the prospect of foreign civilians - American journalists at that - in the presence of the man known in the DPRK, like his father before him, as the "Great Leader." We had been told beforehand to avoid any sudden movements when in the Great Leader's presence. Not to ask any questions unless the Great Leader addressed us. And under no circumstances to stray from our minders...