Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism's classic suspense stories ticked toward its climax, most major afternoon dailies took special pains to avoid lagging in the rush to the newsstands. Almost everywhere, alternate front pages waited to be hustled onto the presses. Most featured a grinning President Eisenhower saying YES or a grim-faced Ike under a headlined NO. Some papers even hedged with a third version: MAYBE...
...order to avoid student disagreement in the common room, Thomas F. Ellingson '57 of the House Committee said, the new set which shows black-and-white programs as well as ones in color, will be restricted to color shows. Ellingson believed that after the novelty of the new set passes, it would not be used for more than a few hours a week...
...Morals and Medicine," Rev. Fletcher defends such controversial processes as birth control, euthanasia, artificial insemination, and abortion, stating that man has the right to use his scientific skills to overcome nature's obstacles. Discussion of the text was barred last week in Philosophy 3 sections largely to avoid offending Radcliffe students by possible indelicate speculation...
With this army of Communists, Lo and his comrades carried out one of the greatest collections of purges in history. They had the Russian experience to lean upon, and they were thus able to avoid the fumbling experiments in mass liquidation made by the early Soviet Chekists. But they worked with a cold-blooded calculation that the Russians, with their basically Christian sense of guilt (evident in this week's Moscow disclaimers) never achieved. The Chinese Communists were so certain of their moral right to kill for the revolution that they attempted at every opportunity to make the people...
...church traditionally sees its reponsibility as first to increase the number of souls who may worship God. Limitation of births, however, is not considered necessarily sinful when brought about through abstinence or the avoidance of intercourse during fertile periods (assuming that they can be determined). Said a Vatican official ast week: "If the institute's initiative eads to the discovery of another way to avoid childbirth without thwarting the end of coitus, the Vatican will certainly examine it tolerantly...