Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exiling of Archbishop Makarios as an act "very deeply resented throughout the orthodox world," sent messages of sympathy and support to Makarios himself in his tropical island exile. Greece talked of withdrawing from NATO, and actually did withdraw its ambassador from London. The U.S. State Department tried to avoid taking sides between its Greek and British friends (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), but in Athens, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon called on Greek Premier Konstantin
Tourists and traveling salesmen, for example, found that it was easier to cover the nation by rail and air, renting a car at each stop, than to drive all the way. Corporations discovered that by leasing fleets long-term they could free working capital, avoid maintenance worries, figure their transportation costs more accurately in advance...
...zoologists do not deny that competition for food exists among species, but say that animal life is constantly evolving to avoid it. If two closely-related species fight over the same food and one group has a slight tendency to prefer what the other doesn't, this tendency is reinforced through evolution, Brown said...
...Americans? May the saints preserves us, the Americans again. I wonder what you'll do to me this time," said the Italian farmer with just the trace of a smile on his lips. The busload of pleasantly jabbering tourists had stopped in Viggiano to avoid traversing the southern countryside during the very hottest part of the day. Most of the safari had headed straight for the nearest cafe and the combination of watered red wine and water which the proprietors dearly loved to sell tourists for only 25 times its cost. A few of the more enterprising members...
Russia's present plan is to "play America's own game" of offering aid to underdeveloped countries, while attempting "infiltration," Dewey continued. The U.S. must maintain its influence with its allies and the "neutral nations," he said, to avoid "economic strangulation...