Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the weekend, a platoon of Rockefeller volunteers from Oregon traveled to Manhattan bearing a petition of 35,000 signatures urging his candidacy. Even George Hinman, Rockefeller's principal adviser, who previously had cautioned the Governor to avoid all primaries lest he capsize his cause and split the party, admitted that he must now campaign hard in Oregon. Curiously silent on the issue, however, was Michigan's erstwhile presidential candidate, George Romney, who surprisingly declined to endorse Rockefeller after his own withdrawal. Last week at a Lansing, Mich., press conference, he again stood mute. Would George back Nelson...
...another round. Although last week's victory allows Griffin to serve the remainder of Williams' term, he must face the regular Democratic primary contest in June. If Evers is a candidate again, he once more has a chance to overcome a splintered white ticket. Or he may avoid the Democratic primary by qualifying himself as an independent and go into a three-man November general election against the Democratic winner and a traditionally feckless Republican. At week's end Evers supporters were planning a drive to register 25,000 more Negro voters, which would give them...
...were killed without a single U.S. loss. By week's end, some 500 Communists had been killed in about 60 scattered clashes. Even so, U.S. intelligence suspected that most Communist units had either withdrawn toward Cambodia or broken up their units into small bands to escape detection and avoid contact...
...statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly be diverted by the eye-rolling ingenuity...
...moving into a fourth year of systematic bombing of China's neighbor and ally, North Vietnam. Clearly no discussion of our response to revolution in Asia, Mr. Chairman, can avoid that matter of most urgent concern to us all, the war in Vietnam...