Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avoid silence, especially at dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation ... Be careful not to fall into a vacant stare...
...distant goals (e.g., the U.S.). British policy has been to keep the sea lanes open, the trade doors open (at least to itself), and to balance world power by chipping away at any state or group of states that threatened to tip it. British diplomatic tactics have been to avoid long-range commitments, deal with problems only as they arise, seek not "solutions" but "adjustments," which can be counted on to last for perhaps ten years...
...policy which Lord Salisbury once characterized as "floating lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat hook to avoid collision." A Socialist who had held high position in the Foreign Office said to an American correspondent last week: "We were like you once. When things really get tough, you just say, 'Oh well, a hundred million dollars will settle it.' In our case, it was cruisers. Some of the most awful mistakes were made, but then we would send around a couple of cruisers...
...newly published 30-page report (not yet translated into English) contained none of the expected wizardry. It urged: welcome foreign capital; cut down controls which discourage foreign trade; shun elaborate social welfare schemes; decentralize factories, to avoid building a citified, slum-dwelling proletariat. Said a Western businessman: "Did they have to send Schacht here to find all this out?" Indonesia's Finance Minister snapped that he agreed with none of the Schacht report except that "Indonesia has a great future...
...insecurity Inherent in the current system where the Army's constantly changing demands force constant revision of the Draft quotas. At present, students have no way of knowing when during their academic career they will be called to service. UMS is a long-range plan designed specifically to avoid this injustice...