Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tension between the expectations of the expatriates and the demands of the United States laws. The radicals focus only on today's war, the hippies on tomorrow's bread, and the law on forever. Except for a few unlitigated areas it is almost certain that flight to Canada to avoid the draft means that you spend the rest of your life there...
Most Republicans want to avoid a primary election fight within their own ranks. They may focus on Robert Packwood, a talented 35-year-old legislator who has quietly cultivated support among progressive Republicans over the last few years. He is considered a liberal but his views on Vietnam are ambiguous. Packwood says the United States has a legal and moral right to be in Vietnam, but condemns the Administration for not developing a long-range plan for leaving. Since he is little known and has not run a state-wide campaign before, he must hope for deep division among...
...recruits-Michael Blasher, 24, a friend since their teens-either ignored or insulted him, says Johnson. When the men sat down at mess, there was a scramble to avoid Johnson's table. When they went into the field, seven or eight trainees would pile into one car, leaving Johnson and Blasher alone in another. When lessons were given in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the instructor showed how a hand kerchief could be used-in case any one was ever called upon to save a Negro. The word nigger was used freely, and because of their friendship, Blasher and Johnson...
...that has not been fully aired in the pages of Cosmopolitan, and she may even have picked up some new ones. Articles tell her how to get married, how to get divorced, how to be a successful mistress, how to make a man of her husband, how to avoid sexual entanglements with Daddy, how to make the most of "brief encounters." There is no sexual problem, apparently, that is not conquerable. "Shy girls can be the sexiest," announces the magazine; so can flat-chested girls: "They substitute their lack of inches with an aura of superfemininity. There is something very...
Context of Society. In order to avoid too ivory tower an approach, Northwestern gives its students practical experience covering a newsbeat for Chicago's American. Similarly, some 15 students each quarter go to Washington, where they work out of the National Press Building under the supervision of a professor in residence. The Missouri School of Journalism plans next fall to start sending students to Brussels for a semester, where they will report on EEC, Euratom and other European affairs...