Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged its rail facilities, destroyed its four giant handling cranes and set fire to huge piles of coal, North Viet Nam's only remaining money-earning export...
...says, "I thought of almost nothing but money, as most freelancers do. Now I expend about one-fifth the energy as an editor, and I go home at 5:30 and forget about it until the next day." But in spite of all the hazards, freelancers continue to avoid the temptations of security. At one point when he was feeling "particularly unstable," Brock Brower applied for a college teaching job. When he was accepted, he told himself: "Oh, to hell with it. I'm not feeling unstable any more." As a freelancer intending to write books...
Michel is a seven-year-old French Jewish orphan whose father died in a concentration camp; his mother swallowed cyanide to avoid being sent to one. During the war, a daring band of nuns spirits him to safety in a nursery run by Mile. Odette Rose, who has Michel baptized, and after the war refuses to give him up to his aunt and uncle in Palestine. Her battle is joined by the French Catholic Church up to the level of cardinal. In fighting assorted Zionists, the Catholics revert to their underground railway, but what was heroism in wartime...
...could explain all about the mechanic, the wheel and the word. The impetus was the 1959 federal court decision that D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar inflection...
...Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance of power had been the victors' conscious and proclaimed objective. They would then, one supposes, have seen that it was essential to avoid the complete destruction of the defeated enemy's power, since that power would be needed in the postwar balance." But with Germany prostrate and the Allies in bad shape, the rapid postwar withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Europe left "no military obstacle to the Red Army if it chose...