Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been no direct censorship or expulsion of U.S. correspondents from Czechoslovakia. Will Lang, of TIME Inc.'s Berlin bureau, who covered the coup, cabled that before he left Prague his Czech friends had already begun to avoid him, saying it would be unwise for them to be seen with an American any more...
...Halliday's psychosocial medicine would include "biopolitics." He gives a practical tip: avoid political leaders who themselves have recurring psychosomatic illnesses like skin troubles, stomach ulcers, rheumatism...
John D. Wild, professor of Government, who spoke after the demonstrators had left, called for "strength of purpose" rather than conscription to avoid...
Such shenanigans dramatize Graves's disgust with civilization as he finds ' it. That disgust kept him in high school until he was 21 because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle...
...loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation as a lover of peace who is trying to find a way to avoid World...