Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...third of the Hollywood figures subpoenaed by Congress chose to name names in order to avoid imprisonment or blacklisting. Most of these "friendly" witnesses rehearsed their public testimony in prior, closed sessions with individual congressmen or committees. With few exceptions, the names they gave to Congress were already known to the committees and the FBI. The point of the McCarthy hearings, Navasky says, was not to gather information for legislative purposes, as HUAC's charter stated, but to force private citizens to degrade themselves in order to prove their loyalty. Those who betrayed their natural moral impulses were made heroes...
...State Department source said recently it is better to support Marcos because none of his opponents have "a positive program for operational change." Another State Department official. Frazier Meade, country director for Philippine Affairs, says the U.S. would do best "to avoid the competition between Aquino and Marcos." And they are not an inhuman lot down at State; privately, one source conceded when asked about martial law, "We're caught in a real bind...
While Gould the awe-struck and eager little boy serves as the inquisitive force in these essays, Gould the professor steps in to provide scholarly, though never didactic, explanations. In fact, Gould is so careful to avoid sounding technical that he seems more a well-read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca...
...preparing the budget, the President and his advisers worried about the challenge on the left from Kennedy. Cutting social programs could cost them important liberal support. But when inflation soared instead of dipping as they expected, and the Kennedy challenge started to fade, Carter rushed to the right to avoid being outflanked by Ronald Reagan, then starting to hit his stride...
...raid is over. Strictly speaking, that may not be true, but since there is no difference between the alert and the all clear, there is room for confusion. Iranian Phantoms have put on a dazzling display of technical skill, swooping in over Baghdad at treetop level to avoid radar detection, dropping their bombs and hightailing it back to Iran before the Iraqis realize what has happened...