Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between our two countries and that the Bolivian Government officials would take all steps to avoid further incidents...
...while, a fact of life. As long as the University feels it worthwhile to admit local students for whom there are no House facilities, or who cannot afford residence a commuting problem will exist. While not an ideal solution, cooperative houses do offer a chance for students to avoid the inconvenience of daily MTA travel and the distractions of living at home...
...Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's note of Jan. 10, suggesting a 28-nation conference to prepare a peace treaty with West and East Germany. Indirectly spurning Khrushchev's gambit, the allies suggested a Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin and Germany. Suggested place: Vienna, to avoid the fog of failure that hangs over Geneva, site of many futile East-West conferences since the end of World War II. The notes named no date; France's Charles de Gaulle had insisted that to suggest a date prior to May 27 would make it appear that...
Germany gains from never having had colonies in the Mideast and, by shunning long-term investments in the area, West German businessmen continue to avoid the dread label "imperialist." Fury over British policy in Cyprus helped wipe out Gfeek memories of the harsh World War II German occupation, has played a big part in the Greek choice of West Germany as its new economic mentor. In Arab countries, the Suez invasion gave German traders a big edge over the British and French. "And why not?" asks one West German businessman. "We have clean hands...
...army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting, the body is turned over to relatives for burial...