Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent rioting in the cities of America has proven to be a great catalyst for Cambridge. Proposals that were bogged down in the political maneuvering of the City Council and school committee have been released in a great flow of legislation designed to avoid a long hot summer...
...extent of America's future military commitment to pro Western nations in Southeast Asia; and the initiation of regional economic cooperation--and internal political democracy--to eliminate the wretched social conditions which underlie the 27-year-old peasant revolt throughout Vietnam. Thus, if the United States intends to avoid a "fake" solution in Southeast Asia, its leader--whoever is elected to succeed President Johnson--must make the forthcoming peace talks squarely confront a vast panoply of long-standing problems, of which the current war is only the most recent expression...
...opened, club-wielding police broke up a demonstration against the Viet Nam war by 150 young Swedes, some of them carrying signs reading SUPPORT FOR THE DOLLAR IS SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE and NO CREDITS TO U.S. MURDERERS. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, chief U.S. delegate, took a back entrance to avoid the melee...
...first cafeteria in a Mobile relief hall in 1920. Named after Co-Founder J. Arthur Morrison, an Alabama restaurateur who had seen a cafeteria in Denver and brought the idea South, the business caught on so fast that three more branches were opened within a year. Anxious to avoid the dreariness that afflicted so many other cafeterias, Morrison's employed waiters to carry the customer's tray to his table, also set most of its serving lines out of sight of the dining areas. The idea, then as now, was that cafeteria dining can be respectable, a notion...
Graduate student winners of Harvard Travel Fellowships will not forfeit their awards by going to jail to avoid the draft...