Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date, the first weekend of reading period, the first weekend after generals and divisionals, was chosen after consultations with other colleges, and efforts are now being made to avoid a conflict with the Freshman Jubilee...
Because of the rash of joint activities taking place at both Harvard and the Annex, including dances and theatrical productions, Council members decided to try coordinating enough groups at both colleges to make a joint calendar in order to avoid conflicting dates...
...attitude by the Communists, but on a change of course by the U.N. In retrospect, Matt Ridgway's generals and admirals seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that only "inexorable military pressure" would drive the Reds to make peace. They had tied themselves in knots trying to avoid giving the enemy what they scathingly called a "de facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire for an armistice by the fact that they had agreed to negotiate in the first place, and by the large concession...
...Egyptian police headquarters. Four British army officers, seven Egyptian cops and four civilians were killed. After order was restored, a truce was arranged: the Egyptians agreed to disarm their police, the British promised to evacuate the military families from Ismailia as quickly as possible. Both sides seemed eager to avoid trouble. The women were clearing out; it was unwise to be out after dark or to go off limits; a clap of the hands no longer brought native servants on the trot...
...expressed his regrets over Rice's resignation, but insisted that Celanese Theater would nevertheless go ahead with Counsellor-at-Law, starring Alfred Drake and Ruth Hussey. Explained Ellington: "We've tried to lean over backward to live up to the best traditions of the theater and to avoid any of that political thing in casting. But when you get somebody who may cause a lot of bad publicity for your program, you have to be a little careful-it's an ordinary business safeguard...