Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried to Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden to fuel ships to carry Italian prisoners from Ethiopia on at least the first leg of their trip to Italy. The British say that it is necessary to get white Italians out of Ethiopia as fast as possible -"to avoid mutilation...
...Easter must follow the Jewish Passover (which always falls on the 14th day of the paschal month) to avoid conflict between the two holy days...
...Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement...
Educators have long faced the choice between compulsory instruction and neglected opportunity, but in its attempt to avoid either extreme, Harvard has devised a lecture system that is not worthy of its Faculty. For the excellence of a liberal arts instructor lies not so much in the scientist's ability to present accepted facts as in the power to correlate, to criticize, and to stimulate, and in its unnecessary compromise with these aims, the College has sacrificed much of its academic superiority...
...pledged himself to abolish the old school tie tradition, to rid England of drones, whether they be aristocrats or pub crawlers. And showing the type of realism which differentiates constructive planning from political promises, he offered a definite financial program calling for high taxes and stabilized prices to avoid inflation. Social legislation would not be allowed to kill private enterprise...