Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part, would like to see the conferees at Bogota limit themselves to one main enterprise: a more effective and tightly knit union of the Americas. This would be achieved by treaties to strengthen Pan American cooperation in military and political matters. State hopes that the conference will avoid embarrassing floor-wrangling over economic aid. Such controversies, successfully postponed at the Rio Conference last summer, should be postponed again, the U.S. feels, until a purely economic meeting to be held later...
...only preventive [for baldness] . . . is to avoid being born to parents with a streak of baldness. It's probably something to do with the sex glands. Nobody has ever seen a bald eunuch...
...means an illegal business-and may be. The greatest danger, Wittenberg points out, is that newspapers, with no ready means of checking many of the stories they print, must rely on the accuracy of the wire services and news syndicates. Yet in 47 states (only Florida excepted), newspapers cannot avoid libel suits by blaming news services for mistakes. Wittenberg thinks a change is due, along the lines of a 1932 Florida decision, which ruled that complexities of modern newsgathering make the news source liable, not the newspaper...
...Wheel. Ivan wakes up in the dormitory at school, where he proceeds to misbehave and get expelled, just as he did before. He hurts his mother, just as he did before. What had been his past is now his future; he knows it but he cannot avoid it. He gets into the same scrapes, has the same adventures with women. By the time he again meets Zinaida he has forgotten that he ever met her. The story repeats itself down to the last detail-until, once again, he finds himself visiting the magician. But when he reaches the point...
Speaking for the group that walked out last night, White termed the final split "a most unfortunate outcome, one we've tried to avoid for more than a year...