Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force pilots over Hanoi drew small comfort from the stringent warning to avoid residential areas. Their orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later...
...moment, Hudgins seems to be trying to avoid the choice by appealing both to some Harlemites through the churches, and to some non-Harlem business by remaining a moderate. If this strategy wins him only half-hearted support from both groups, the bank will never have a chance to show what a soundly financed Negro bank might do for Negro areas such as Harlem. The perils of fence-sitting in banking are considerably greater than almost any other kind of fence-sitting, for there is no comeback from failure
...President's loss in popularity has cost him considerable political capital. Democratic Congressmen, eager to avoid the label of Administration rubber stamps; are increasingly unwilling to support the President's proposals. All Johnson's talents of persuasion have not been able to give the Administration anything more than the narrowest victories for its two most original recent programs, the Teacher Corps and the Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower...
...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...
...just discovered that his men and the Puerto Ricans don't get along too well. I don't know why the police don't like Puerto Ricans. With all of the shooting they are supposed to have been doing during the rioting, they managed to avoid hitting any policemen while suffering numerous wounds themselves...