Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
...Fewer students returning from leaves of absence. Most of those formerly on leaves have already "come back under the umbrella" during the last three years to avoid the draft...
Pittendrigh added, however, that he did not expect many students to follow this course, since "no graduate students is likely to be so stupid that he won't think his decision out carefully. Going to jail or running off to Canada is more than simply a way to avoid something distasteful...
...hospital was over 750, meaning that there were two patients to many beds. The hospital itself, judged to be one of the best of the province hospitals in South Vietnam, had very little in the way of sanitary facilities. Walking through it, one had to take care to avoid stepping in human defication. There were no screens in the windows, and open wounds were festering with maggots in them...
...fact is, there often is no message. Havens, 27, a Brooklyn-born Negro who performs with compelling fervor, exemplifies the tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...