Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rarely accepted), Sweden puts women through a multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying. To avoid de facto infanticide, Swedish women flock to Poland for early, efficient $60 abortions. Appalled, the Swedish government has concluded that the law must be broadened to allow more and faster abortions...
...know-how they can get. Never have they gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air missiles. To complicate their mission, Washington demands high-precision pinpoint bombing to avoid endangering civilian populations; pilots must get in close, fast, and make no mistakes...
...attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." And so, to Pinter's people, speech is a strategy for escaping detection. They reverse their statements and talk past other people in order to avoid their reach. Like children, they refuse to answer questions because they hear them all too clearly...
...unprotected fields. In some areas, the loss was cut to a tenth of normal. Even better results would have been obtained, the Russians admit, had the operation been better planned. As it was, there were frequently shortages of shells, and firing had to be delayed at crucial moments to avoid hitting aircraft...
Despite his own careful pains to avoid sounding too intelligent, Nat became disgusted and enraged when his fellow Negroes ingratiated on whites. Take this passage, for example, with Nat, Hark (another slave), and old Judge Cobb...