Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid that feeling and to avoid actually being persecuted, Smith suggests seven "don'ts for our new President: 1) Don't be careless with your secrets, 2) Don't discount all criticism, 3) Don't bridle, publicly, about being followed, 4) Don't lie to reporters, 5) Don't drink or swear in public, 6) Don't be patronizing to reporters or photographers, 7) Don't lose your temper in public...
...activities of our organization are directed towards securing inter-racial understanding and cooperation through educational methods. Because we do not believe that negative educational methods are effective, we would not write "laff" on a blackboard and tell children to avoid spelling "laugh" that way. Likewise, we would not show a film which is rife with anti-Negro propaganda and which presents a warped viewpoint of the period in American history in which the Negro's role was a highly controversial subject...
...conventional psychotherapists ducked their heads to avoid the crossfire of criticism, it was not for long. They had a handy consolation: their critics of the right and left might cancel each other...
...Hebrew count 5712) was the first shmita to come round after Israel gained its independence. But with a partly Socialist government and a farming population that is generally far from Orthodox in its religious views, Israel's modern Orthodox rabbinate was hard put to observe the Law. To avoid flouting it openly, the rabbis technically "sold" the entire territory of Israel to an obliging Arab named Mahmoud. Mahmoud gave the rabbis power of attorney, which enabled them to "sell"the state back to themselves, at the close of the sabbatical year...
Paddy Swift does not look like a tough guy. A tall, gangling youngster with long sideburns and mild brown eyes, he is largely self-taught. He did his best to avoid school altogether, and when rounded up and set at a desk, he spent his time sketching instead of learning his Latin. Then came "a short period during which I tried to get the family used to the idea that I didn't want...