Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumped to his feet, and gesturing angrily toward Maher, shouted his reply, concluding: "I let it be known that when I came to my 70th birthday, I would gladly walk out of office." There was, one feels, a fundamental irony, in Hayes's appeal to the other Councillors to avoid discussing personalities during the stormy meeting. For personalities was the name of the game, and, more than anyone else, Mayor Hayes should have known. They are largely what made him the mayor
Clearly, it was time for Mrs. Virginia McLaughlin to tell her daughter about sex. At 13, Mary Ann had given birth to a baby boy. Mrs. McLaughlin sternly ordered the girl to avoid boys. Fearing she might not be obeyed, the Cleveland housewife also instructed Mary Ann to make sure that her next partner used a contraceptive (but didn't tell her that she could use one herself...
...third child. As a result, Mary Ann was packed off to a state school for juvenile delinquents-while Mrs. McLaughlin was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. In effect, charged the prosecution at her trial, Mrs. McLaughlin's advice on how to avoid pregnancy had encouraged Mary Ann to have illicit affairs. A jury found Mrs. McLaughlin guilty as charged, and she was given a suspended sentence of one year in the workhouse and a $200 fine...
...Manhattan speech, is that "economists simply don't know" enough about how a high-employment economy works to enable them to act "with a high degree of reliability." Adds Duesenberry: "Our problem is to get as much flexibility as we can into 1966 policies, and to avoid any irreversible steps...
According to one source, Lindsay wanted to call a halt to settlements on the basis of the "understandings." He felt that because of it many inequities, for example wage differentials, of the previous contracts were swept under the table. To avoid this he wanted to arrive at a settlement through open collective bargaining...