Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent, harsher times, the Chinese were told to cut the holiday short and to avoid frivolity. This year, newspapers and radio stations urged them to have a good time, which was all the encouragement that they needed. Firecrackers began popping well in advance of the holiday. Shoppers thronged department stores and marketplaces. In the major cities they were able to choose from among 3,000 consumer items. Many had not been available before, ranging from enamelware to stretch socks...
Just 14 weeks into his reign, John Paul II might have been tempted to avoid this Latin American entanglement, as his short-lived predecessor had planned to do. But a leader with his vigorous makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America...
after all, since it doesn't mean anything but sounds like New Freedom, New Nationalism, Square Deal, Fair Deal, New Deal, and New Federalism. When the "theme" wears thin, Carter can stir up wars and skillfully avoid them, or win them, and he can play with the economy to make us feel more prosperous than we ever will be. But the Georgian is no longer the man who can walk up to a three-year-old, smile a good-old-boy-two-sets-of-teeth-smile and say, "Why shucks, I don't even rightly recollect as I know where...
Rhodes Scholar co-captain Glenn Fine can quarterback the team; co-captain Bob Hooft has done well up front, though his shooting has fallen into inconsistency lately. With a Cornell-Columbia double bill this weekend, the Crimson guns will have to come out screaming if Harvard is to avoid falling into oblivion...
Defenders of Turner and the CIA blame any shortcomings on others. They contend that since the 1960s, a decade after the agency helped put the Shah in power, the CIA has been under White House orders to stay away from his enemies to avoid giving the impression that U.S. support for him was weakening. Moreover, only the U.S. Ambassador had the authority to report to Washington on political conditions in Iran...