Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wearing job. Said one Harlem junior-high-school teacher of his all-girl classes: "You've got to get between them before they start fighting-they don't just scratch; they dig in and bring away skin and meat." Said another instructor: "I have to fight to avoid sinking into the mire of their emotions." Said a Brooklyn science teacher: "I have to be 90% warden, 7% wet nurse and 3% teacher...
...simplest way to avoid injury, Harper says, is to wear a safety belt, which at the very least will keep the passenger from being thrown out. He should usually escape serious injury unless the car is crushed...
...President has said that we must avoid a panic in this country over the prospect of hydrogen warfare, and he is right. But here again there is a large gap between knowledge and panic; Americans have in the past absorbed defense education without falling into blinding fear. The administration has perhaps dwelt too long on the fable of the boy who cried wolf without reason and needlessly alarmed his neighbors. It would be well to consider also the boy who saw the wolf but neglected to cry out; he was devoured quickly and silently...
...Lubell were convinced that the inquiry was "repugnant to the spirit of the First Amendment" and if he wished to avoid implicating others, he might have adopted the tactics of calculated attempt, successfully adopted by Irving Goldman of Sarah Lawrence College, among others, without any reprisal on the part of the Jenner Committee. That is to say, Lubell might have spoken freely about has own past, stated that he is not under Communist direction, and then refused to speak about anyone else. Of course, this subjects him to a possible contempt charge, but there are many lawyers looking for just...
...rites will be simple and austere, a modern duplication of the inauguration of John Leverett in 1707. The same pattern was followed when James B. Conant 14 was installed in 1933. The reason for the austerity in Conant's inauguration was to avoid any undue expenditures in a time of rigid economy...