Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper man for about 30 years, I held to the belief that fairness and journalistic ethics require a writer to avoid misrepresentation. I still hold to that belief...
Down Potsdam's slushy Berlinerstrasse stumbled twelve haggard men. Halfheartedly they tried to avoid the largest puddles. Their faces had the pale, creased look of prisoners. Behind them trudged a stubby, broad-faced Russian soldier, Tommy gun crooked in his right arm, the wide Ukrainian steppe in his blue eyes...
Bogotá beggars are efficient, too. They avoid jurisdictional disputes by an agreement allotting favorite spots (church doors, hotels, markets), have a system of renting children to childless professionals...
Ashmore, who is 30 but looks older, tempers his enthusiasm for reform with consideration for the facts of Southern life. Says he: "We hope to avoid the usual Southernisms, [such as] undue sensitivity to outside criticism. . . . We will maintain, however, that the Southern white man is a member of a persecuted minority, constantly damned by U.S. liberals who ignore his considerable accomplishments. ... I am a Southerner by inclination as well as by virtue of two Confederate grandfathers, but it is high time we rejoined the Union...
...Chem major. A prospective Biology major must resign himself to spending three and possibly four afternoons a week in the laboratories. The situation can become much worse if the concentrator has failed to space his lab courses properly, but an early start and consultation with the departmental adviser can avoid this...