Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gobbling child-care books; Spock's sales recently passed 20.5 million. Whatever their merits, the books produce a good many faddishly permissive parents. Often a father is more involved in living up to his child's expectations than the child is in living up to his. To avoid "hurting" children, he shields them from adult power, indulges their impulses, and thus inflicts the injury that a New York headmaster calls "denial of denial." Such children are stunned when they discover that parents don't practice what they preach...
...filling in for Danny Naylor at 130, drew with Jestyn Payne, 2-2, on Goodman's reversal and Payne's two escapes. And at 145, sophomore Jeff Seder pulled out a 6-6 draw with Dave Martin, when the referee accused Martin of intentionally going out of bounds to avoid a take-down and awarded Seder the tying point...
...stomach" may indeed be uncomfortable be cause gas is distending some part of his digestive tract. If he chews a few antacid tablets, he most likely will do himself no good, but neither will he do any harm. To guard against recurrences, he should avoid eating pulse vegetables such as navy or lima beans (as every high-altitude flyer and astronaut knows) and roughage foods such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and celery. These two classes of foods, by different biochemical mechanisms, promote the formation of gas in the digestive tract...
Because the paper had devised a system to avoid such errors, Lord Chief Justice Parker did not jail Evans but fined the Times $12,000 and court costs last week. Making the best of it, the daily Times congratulated the judge for at least distinguishing between responsibility and culpability...
...Ford president was careful to avoid the pitfall of incentive-destroying programs in which "every dollar increase in earned income is entirely off set by withdrawal of a dollar in welfare payments." Instead, he said, "when a member of a family began to earn income, the basic allowance would automatically be reduced by an offsetting tax, but not by a corresponding amount. A family with a member at work would always be better off than a family with out anyone at work...