Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossing the intersection from Memorial Hall at 6 o'clock, Leavitt was hit by an cast-bound car drivan by Robert Wood, of Cambridge, who told police that he could not see Leavitt until it was too late to avoid an accident. Wood said he swerved to the left in an effort to by-pass Leavitt who could not explain why he had not seen the vehicle...
...Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
...British destroyers spoiled the Jewish plan. They spotted the Jewish Assembly, blinked an order for it to proceed to Cyprus. The Assembly's answer flashed back: "No, we have come from the concentration camps of Europe. This is not a pleasure cruise." A British destroyer captain pleaded: yield, avoid bloodshed. "Never, captain, never," was the reply. "As your own leader said we say: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the streets.' We shall fight on this ship for our right to live...
...those highly controversial subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive, constructive U.S. world leadership. TIME reports and interprets the news of U.S.-Russian relations in the light of these convictions...
...induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them how to fake illness. But he also found "psychopathic personalities," and among the toughest outfits: in North Africa soldiers in a crack airborne division...