Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During 22 months of bombing raids against North Viet Nam, the U.S. has scrupulously sought to avoid harming civilians. Last week, as the first ac credited American correspondent to visit Hanoi in twelve years cabled back eyewitness accounts of damage to civilian areas, Lyndon Johnson's Administration confessed that the attempt has not been altogether successful. At the same time, the correspondent himself came under criticism for presenting to the nation what many observers considered to be an uncritical, one-dimensional picture of the effects of the U.S. bombing on the North...
Bombing civilians "is not national policy," Air Force Secretary Harold Brown said emphatically, "and it shouldn't be." But, the Pentagon said, "it is impossible to avoid all damage to civilian areas, especially when the North Vietnamese deliberately emplace" military targets in populated areas. U.S. planes sometimes have to jettison bombs willy-nilly in order to engage attacking MIG fighters. Moreover, some of Hanoi's own SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) have fallen back into populated areas...
Despite unprecedented academic and social pressures, the young on campus are carefully keeping their options open. (After all, it was Kierkegaard who said: "The desire to avoid definition is a proof of tact.") From Columbia to U.C.L.A., the shift is away from specialized subjects such as engineering and business administration and toward the humanities: English, history, political science. In particular, engineering, once a burgeoning discipline, is in sharp decline as a major subject: last year nearly a third of the engineering openings in the U.S. went unfilled. A new field of interest is urban planning, for today's young...
...substitutes perspiration for inspiration is a "wonk"-derived from the British "wonky," meaning out of kilter. The quality an earlier generation labeled cool is "tough," "kicky," "bitchin'," or "groovy." But the most meaningful facet of In-Talk is its ambiguity, a reflection of youth's determination to avoid self-definition even in conversation. "Up tight" can mean anxious, emotionally involved or broke; to "freak out" can mean to flip, go high on drugs, or simply to cross the edge of boredom; a "stud...
...this month's election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people's trust in politics and political parties. We are determined to investigate what needs to be investigated, rectify the wrongs, and establish...