Word: avoiding
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...which were destroyed in the war. He died in poverty at 68." Roy Wetherington, July 2, 1995, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The farm and livestock of another signer, John Hart of New Jersey, were destroyed. Hart and his wife hid in the woods for several months to avoid capture; she died as a result of the ordeal...
...Though Arafat is in fact unlikely to follow through on his September deadline, Clinton has to be troubled by the fact that the ailing, 70-year-old Arafat has plainly become obsessed with his own legacy. Even more important than immediately delivering a Palestinian state is his desire to avoid being remembered as a traitor. In that frame of mind he presided last weekend over a PLO meeting that considerably narrowed his room for maneuver in negotiations, a session that underlined as non-negotiable demands for the return of all Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem...
Richard Williams has invited himself to a friend of a friend's funeral in order to avoid the paternal pain of watching a grinning, shrieking, fist-pumping blood match between daughters Venus and Serena on Centre Court at Wimbledon Thursday. "One of them is going to be buried," Williams said. "I might as well go to a real funeral. At least I get the music...
Most of all, they'll try to avoid publicly criticizing each other. "All of us in this room," Venter told TIME last Thursday, "have found a way to put the human emotions behind us. There are things we have all said that, given a rational condition, we wish we hadn't said." Said Collins simply: "I heartily agree." With any luck, their bitter dispute, which has loomed so large for so long, will be a minor footnote in the genomic revolution that has barely begun...
...runs Stevens Media Consulting Ltd. Her office had a very Jack Paar-inspired set with a desk in front of a painted New York City backdrop. She gave me advice like not to wear hats "unless you have a clever or serious reason for wearing one" and to avoid the temptation of swivel chairs. She also told me, "You're the man," "Be the man," "Just be the man," and "It makes you the man." After reviewing the tape we had made, where I did fine because I wasn't really on TV, she tried to encourage me by saying...