Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cells of the French Resistance, justification derives not from an oppressive outer force but rather from the members' inner needs for exclusivity. As James Baldwin has pointed out, everyone needs his "nigger." We are told by the Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers are collapsing and on a campus where fraternal orders are viewed with some disdain, was the means by which Choate members avoided their own anxiety in having...
...those who said they would refuse service, 26.5 per cent said they would leave the country, 11 per cent said they would go to jail, and 9 per cent said they would remain here but "attempt to avoid the draft...
...social palliatives of the past 35 years to insure decent living standards, education, and employment for all citizens. The mood of many Kennedy supporters is characterized by disgust at the sterility of most liberals' response to national crisis and conviction that material and political resources are available to avoid Vietnams at home or abroad...
...effort to sustain a steady drive the entire game and avoid the usual "Harvard choke" in the final period, Coach Bruce Munro shifted his strategy and started three midfields instead of the normal...
...conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table, he took notes as unobtrusively as possible, looking down only when he somehow knew it was time to turn to a blank sheet. If this was an effort to avoid distracting me, it was counter-productive. I spent the better part of dinner watching him write in his book...