Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Randolph earnestly counseled "patience and more patience" to avoid strikes. He carefully coached the delegates on how to act if a strike were called: "No law says you must tell the employer why you are striking. You can strike for any reason at all, or for no reason at all. . . . We only want to do what we have been doing for more than 100 years. We can assure [employers] that we will do what comes naturally...
...will be executed. This line of thought would demand that we say it was God's intention that six million Jews die in the recent European carnage, that uncounted millions of men live today in fear of secret police. . . . With such a conception of sovereignty, how can we avoid saying that whatever is, is right...
...easier to talk about the Apocalypse and to consult occult books than to admit that one is an abettor of disorder. . . . The Apocalypse is indulged as a fad now in order to avoid undertaking, in the face of the sickness of Europe, measures for public wellbeing. . . . Europe's bad conscience lends itself to playing up the Apocalypse. This is not what the Apocalypse is for . . .1 have no more reason to deny than I have to admit that we may have entered into those convulsions which, according to the Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What...
...avoid eye movements which might part the healing tissues, Mayor Lawrence for the next six weeks will wear goggles with pinpoint holes that will force him to look straight ahead...
Inside, members and lucky strangers sat through a dull "Question Time." It was just ending when Clement Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...