Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George VI's daily routine has been rigorous, unsensational, inelegant. Like every other Briton who can manage it, he has his cup of morning tea, a black Indian blend in bed at about 8 o'clock. When he travels he lives aboard his ten-car train to avoid the fuss and bother of staying with people. By 9:30 he has bathed, dressed, breakfasted and glanced at the morning papers. All the London dailies go to the Palace. When he is in London he then meets one of his two secretaries in his office. The secretary is loaded...
...have no connection whatever with any German group, and have tried to avoid even personal contact with Germans for the last five years-not as a matter of principle, but as a matter of taste...
...part of the broad policies to be followed, the Committee recommended that: 1) war surpluses should be sold abroad, if necessary to avoid glutting the U.S. market; 2) the Federal Government relax "traditional [audit] rules on payments," interpret regulations liberally to speed contracts settlements...
...Department, which suggested PRC in the first place, then watched it get out of hand, is moving in too. The international oil companies involved have achieved a very neat compromise between their deep and antithetic desires: 1) to enlist strong Government support in the Middle East and 2) to avoid any direct Government interest in their production and refining operations. The U.S. Government will now have good reason to remain vitally interested in the area.* But the industry is violently split into "ins" & "outs" in looking forward to major oil production in the Middle East...
...that a nation which owns 50% of the world's shipping cannot escape enormous political, economic and international problems. They are not sure how well prepared the U.S. will be to face these problems at war's end. And the operators realize that no seafaring nation can avoid foundering on these reefs without well-charted policies...