Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the decision, it is unlikely to be a violent one until all diplomatic channels have been thoroughly explored. "We are not going to shoot from the hip." Lyndon Johnson firmly warned his advisers last week. The President wants to avoid at all events any clash that might debilitate the nation's military strength and imperil his own political stance as a man of restraint. Yet as his critics are bound to point out, the all-encompassing eye that Johnson trains on domestic affairs should have been applied as closely to military and intelligence procedures before the Pueblo embarrassment...
...doubtful whether anyone else might have been more successful than Pearson in uniting Canada. What was required above all was a statesman with the perception and tact to avoid further aggravation of Canada's problems, and Pearson, for all the dreary confusion of his administration, was such a statesman. He brought the skills of a great diplomat to a situation where such skills were badly needed; his accomplishments were unexciting, but very real nonetheless. At no time in his ten-year political career did Lester Pearson enjoy the support of a large majority of Canadians, but if another...
Murphy knows this. He knows how hard it is to get up for the easy meets. He knows the negative pressure of trying to maintain a record, trying to avoid defeat...
...half a million students at the least. It was a disturbing challenge. Why, indeed, is there no massive student protest of the war? The CRIMSON poll suggests that a significant number of seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self-conscious, so temperate...
...about it. In 1963, Newbold Noyes was named editor, with a mandate to spend money on a topnotch staff. As a result, today's Star is again a newspaper worth reading, without sacrificing its urbane, low-keyed style. It manages to keep up with fast-breaking news and avoid the big, overblown headlines and shoddy sensationalism too often endemic to the afternoon. The Star is still the No. 2 paper in Washington, but in almost any other city it would rank...