Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy to fall back on, huffed & puffed to blow the Iranian clouds away. The State Department issued a statement on the U.S. position: "We have stressed to the governments of both countries the need to solve the dispute in a friendly way through negotiation, and have urged them to avoid intimidation and threats of unilateral action...
...million dollars, one-fifth of its yearly goal. To make allocations of all the funds easier, the A.M.A. has channeled its resources to the N.F.M.E. The A.M.A. has held onto its own money-raising plan, however. Although the profession has demonstrated its desire to find private capital and avoid federal aid, the estimated annual sum still necessary to keep the medical schools in operation is forty million. This figure is far beyond the reaches of any private effort...
...Avoid 'Diffolute Life...
...himself thinks in terms of more recent history. "Mussolini," he once said, "was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his mistakes." On the record so far, Perón has done just that. His regime has the authoritarian marks-extreme nationalism, the leader principle, an all-powerful state, a militant single party, intolerance of opposition and retention of the form of democracy without any of ts substance. But the Peróns have not yet followed...
...Christian . . . has two weapons-the Word and suffering. To fail the Word and to go into hiding in order to avoid unpleasantness...