Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always avoid rudeness. But when I hear rudeness addressed to me I answer twice or three times as rudely, notwithstanding...
...Pretty little "Perfume of the South," his empress, had arrived in town with their five children. In her wake came a delegation of 22 Annamites. What the Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech, you have revealed to me the whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came...
...avoid it, he prescribes internationalism-a U.N. with Russia counted out: "The veto must be abandoned. ... It is the dictatorship of one nation ruled by one man. That kind of U.N. cannot save democracy. Stalin is not yearning to save democracy. . . . Russia will employ it as a weapon to divide and ultimately crush the democracies. . . . The U.N. is not an international government. It must be remade to become one. It is very likely that the moment the nations begin reshaping the U.N. they will be on the way to an international government without Russia...
...avoid "embarrassing situations" which have arisen in the past, a member of the Council's Freshman Affairs Committee will serve as acting business manager until the end of the competition on January...
...want our teams well equipped and well coached," Bingham concluded. "What ever is reasonable is all right, but we must avoid former extravagances. We also have to remember that as far as undergraduates are concerned. Other sports are important besides football...