Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual life. We can understand the particular desire of the Russian people to have close neighbors who are friendly . . . But we foresee that unless Soviet policies are changed, those policies will, in their actual operation, create precisely such surrounding animosity and hostility as Soviet policy understandably wants to avoid...
...made solely by thinking of all the things the enemy might do. A defense policy logically starts from political goals; a nation determines what kind of military force it needs to achieve its political ends. Military policy is interlaced with foreign policy, especially where a nation, hoping to avoid war, intends to use its military power in political bargaining...
...cavalryman with the cavalryman's inbred dislike for position warfare, he stepped into the command with no illusions of cheap successes or quick victory. Little known outside France, he was a cold, distant figure when he arrived in Saigon and took steps to make himself inconspicuous and to avoid the press. With his chic blonde wife (a descendant of Joachim Murat, the Napoleonic King of Naples), he moved into the rambling residence of the commander in chief. ("Why," exclaimed Mme. Navarre when she first saw the big place, "it's like a railway station!") For weeks he toured...
...truth," he said. "There are some barriers, but they do not serve to imprison truth. Their purpose is to prevent hypotheses that have not been proved from being taken for established facts, and to keep people from forgetting the necessity for checking one source against another ... It is to avoid these causes of error that there are barriers, but there are none for truth...
...feminine, nice-looking and, above all, individual." This means an air of restrained elegance known as "the Neiman-Marcus look." It is largely because many of the Texas new rich "were willing to be guided because they recognized an authority," says Stanley Marcus seriously, "that they were able to avoid many of the pitfalls of the rich. In a relatively brief period, it was hard to tell them from any 'old money' group in America...