Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...prices, especially close to Harvard Square, are high. In the Spring a student may find decent rooms near the Square at reasonable rates. Every passing month makes the search more difficult, and by the fall apartment seekers often have to sacrifice the convenience of proximity to the Yard to avoid paying exorbitant rents...
...avoid the heavy casualties of an uphill infantry assault, U.S. commanders devised a wily plan. While the men of the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) stood back, poised to pounce, 900 tear gas grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar...
...shot of lemon squash." Even the land's harsh justice is being relaxed-in a quiet Saudi way. Rather than being beheaded, murderers are simply shot nowadays. Thieves still may lose a hand; but it is first pumped with painkillers, the wrist is wrenched from the socket to avoid any broken bones, and the hand is amputated with sterilized instruments rather than with one grisly swipe...
...other cases, even if Brenner had kept his word, the whole pact violated rules of "fundamental fairness." Such bargains, said Weinfeld, are inherently wrong because of "the unequal positions of the judge and the accused, one with the power to commit to prison and the other deeply concerned to avoid prison." A guilty plea "predicated upon a judge's promise of a definite sentence," he added, "by its very nature does not qualify as a free and voluntary...