Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their eardrums at close quarters), wear leather gloves and kneepads, and are connected to the surface by half a mile of wire that runs to a battery-powered headset. Taped to their ankles are smoke grenades, for use when the Tunnel Rats are ready to emerge, and want to avoid a bullet from a startled American's rifle. Another necessity: an aerosol bomb to attack the half-inch "fire ants" that often infest the tunnels...
...luckless Green, fighting desperately to avoid closing its year with its 13th straight loss, tied the game at 62-all with 40 seconds remaining...
...Oder to ward Berlin and Hitler took sullenly to his bunker, Keitel and his faithful driver took off on a quixotic swing to rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend a crossroads. Keitel devotes five fat paragraphs to a description of how he revamped the defenses of Rathenow, a sleepy hamlet that was threatened by the Russians...
...rights tied tot he struggle for Negro rights, a kind of human revolution." The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, she reminds people, brought together women who were refused seats at an anti-salvery convention in London. Mrs. Friedan foresees "institutional improvements" that will "help women avoid martyr-like choices;" business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will finance reliable day-care nurseries for working mothers. She sees this glorious revolution...
Brandeis professors and students are joining to discuss whether professor should stop giving grades or give everyone A's, in order to avoid "collaboration" with the draft...