Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fumbling in disorder; Sir Winston Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling into a Communist trap...
...grant amnesty to those serving one-to three-year prison terms for damage to "property of the People's Republic." Courts in the future will be on orders to avoid "harshness." (Within three days of the announcement, 4,029 East Germans were released from jail...
...into effect the minute Rojas left Bogotá airport last April on an airline junket to Germany. Rojas' baggage was already on the plane when a loyal officer brought word of the order. He canceled the flight, and the firing was held off for the time being, to avoid trouble with the army...
Cardano also knew something about kibitzers. "You can scarcely avoid folly if they are against you," he noted. Hence, "it is of the very greatest advantage to you to have your own supporters if you wish to win unjustly; and to play otherwise in the presence of a crowd is simply to waste your money." Gamesmanship, a modern art, was not unknown then and Cardano warns against the skillful practitioner who "can disturb your equanimity by making you afraid or angry...
...underdeveloped, too expensive or too heavy; some do not suit all types of aircraft or all types of pilots. The problem for Government committees, cooperating with civil and military airmen, is to select from this plethora a common system that will enable instrument-flying pilots to find any airport, avoid all obstacles and land safely on an invisible runway...