Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last sentence of your article needs a footnote to avoid any overly optimistic interpretation of this trend and to underline the ambiguity of the situation. It is true that Literdrni Noviny published a series, "God Is Not Completely Dead." It must be added, however, that Literdrni Noviny and other Communist cultural periodicals in Czechoslovakia have been recently subjected to rather violent attacks by Communist leaders in Rude Pravo (Red Justice), daily organ of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The tone of these critical remarks indicates that the party is not yet ready to accept either the dissent of intelligentsia...
Judge Paschen is taking great pains to avoid repetition of the outcome of the 1954 trial of Cleveland's Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was found guilty of killing his wife, only to have the verdict upset by the U.S. Supreme Court because of prejudicial press coverage. Yet it is not the judge, but the defense and prosecuting attorneys who are taking all the time. Each is questioning prospective jurors carefully, and is being cut off by Paschen only if he becomes unusually long-winded...
...break the bonds, let each follow his own preference whether to marry or not to marry. The ministry was intended to train a church, with pastors living among the people and keeping house as other people do. Such men should be granted permission to marry, in order to avoid temptation and sin. For, if God has not forbidden them, no man should or may do so. The Pope in making such a rule has no more power than if he were to forbid eating, or drinking, or the performance of other natural functions, or growing...
Consider the ears. Saturday night is the night for virile sounds: sports cars roaring like motorcycles, motorcycles roaring like sports cars, boys and girls laughing with their teeth together. You would laugh too if you didn't avoid the Square Saturday night and creep up Mt. Auburn Street or sneak by on Brattle Street. Come, come behind the pillar and watch the three girls, now in a red Sprite. Too bad girls, the light is green and you have to ride straight through. These things, you know, are a matter of timing...
...efforts to establish precedents can be frustrated, for targets of test cases will sometimes offer generous out-of-court settlements to avoid an adverse--and publicized--court ruling. They can then continue their practices, hoping only that their next victim does not go to CLAO...