Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...
...minutes handsome, 23-year-old test pilot Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin felt the plane out, reporting steadily by radio to observers on the ground. Once, he shot up to 550 miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
Although he has been meticulously careful to avoid any appearance of Kuomintang pressure on Assembly delegates, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in the greatest hurry of all. Before General of the Army George C. Marshall left for home, the Gissimo hoped to have for him full assurances of the Government's democratic intentions. An approved constitution, embodying the liberalizing decisions of the Political Consultation Conference, would be the best assurance...
Primary job of the JRDB is to eliminate unhealthy research competition among the services, avoid waste effort. But it can also discourage "weaponeering" in favor of basic work which may prove valuable in peace as well as in war. Scientists could hope that the Board, with Bush at its head, would not drown in military money the free spirit of U.S. science...
...essence of the Stoll technique is cooperation rather than attack. The committee avoids public crusades or reform waves, concentrates on first getting all the facts, then making helpful suggestions. Says Chairman Stoll's brilliant right-hand man, Lawyer Charles E. Keller: "We avoid all politics. However, we will criticize conditions, or a bad system-or public apathy, if it is to blame. . . . But we never criticize a public official except to his face...