Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These actions apparently rise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals. We, as citizens devoted to the use of books . . . wish to assert the public interest in the preservation of the freedom to read...
...stay of execution won from Douglas and lost in the Supreme Court (see above) gained less than a day of life for the Rosenbergs. The hour of death was moved from 11 p.m. Thursday to 8 p.m. Friday in order to avoid an execution on the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown on Friday...
...Government point in the Rosenberg case is not understood by one citizen in 100. (From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily, Combat, even objected to the scheduling of the execution to avoid the Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes of the violent hate-America drive from Australia's docksides...
...idealistic adventure became a begrudged duty. General Van Fleet stoutly insisted that the enemy could be defeated militarily inside Korea, but once the enemy insisted on truce talk (which went on & off fruitlessly for two of the three years), U.N. instructions were to protect their lines and avoid excessive casualties...
Bobo quickly proved that he is one of the best dancing masters of the modern ring. Circling in a leftward two-step to avoid Paddy Young's sharp left hook, feinting, bobbing and weaving, he made Paddy miss more often than he hit. Meanwhile, from Bobo's own rights and lefts came a tattoo of light, flicking jabs, hooks, crosses, counters and slaps...