Word: avoided
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These frustrations were accompanied, in late 1961, by a kind of vision of a nuclear holocaust destroying Indianapolis. Having read a magazine article listing a selection of the best places in the world to avoid an atomic war, Jones took his wife and three children to one of them, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Belo Horizonte did not present many opportunities, however, so Jones moved to Rio to teach at the American school there. "Jim was no fanatic," said a woman who befriended him there. "He had no wild streak at all. They were just normal, rather naive and provincial Mid westerners...
...officers and other top civil servants, he emphasized that his anti-inflation campaign would require sacrifices "from everyone." Noting that all sorts of interest groups "will make their voices heard," he warned: "You will be tempted to be a spokesman for those you serve. I would like you to avoid that as much as possible and to put yourself in my position...
...functions of the committee--which is to be composed of faculty, students, and alumni--include proposing criteria for fundraising and naming that will meet the school's financial needs, "respect the interests of all parties and avoid unnecessary controversy...
...people outside were near the point where they wouldn't do anything anyone told them to," Steven U. R. Winthrop '80 chairman of the South House committee said yesterday. "There was no way we could turn them away, and the only way to avoid trouble was to close down the party," he added...
Maura Costin, whose Harvard swimming career has been an endless sequence of injuries, feels healthy again but she said last night that she has changed to new events to avoid putting strain on her tender back. Costin will stick to "mainly sprints"--the 100-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. freestyle for instance...