Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major advantage of the system is that it provides the opportunity for the mutual selection of roommates for the following three years. They may be, but more often are not, those assigned for the freshman year. It is recognized that the first priority in House assignment is to avoid separating such groups...
...amphetamines, before "graduating" themselves to what they regard as the ultimate in kicks. In the rebellious student groups like those at Berkeley (see EDUCATION) many are trying LSD because they feel lost on an impersonal, bustling campus; others have been squeezed by the need to make better grades to avoid the draft...
...court officials, Berkman did not hesitate to opt for the court officials. "There is nothing in what we propose," he said, "which would in any way inhibit the freedom of the press." Berkman suggested that the court should set some ground rules for trial coverage in order to avoid prejudicial reporting in the future...
...follow Cushing's lead anyway--the bill's defeat was a mockery of a rational democratic process. The statements of social workers and doctors who deal with the squalor of over-sized, low-income families and who see women risking dangerous pregancies because they don't know how to avoid them were countered only by such retorts as "This amendment is damnable, dirty legislation. It stinks to high heaven." The triumph of this latter argument calls into question the morality and the sheer sanity of the Massachusetts House...
...haven for egg-heads, pinkos and idealists. Socially it has become, in some circles, a symbol of the libertine and the degenerate, boasting both sex orgies and drug rings. For this reason it is particularly important to preface any discussion of drugs with specific limitations in order to avoid exaggeration...