Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon, he is running a campaign that is markedly similar to Goldwater's in 1964-striking a low posture to avoid overexposure, and all the while rounding up the state and county chairmen whose votes often determine the nominees. But there is a significant difference from 1964. Then, Goldwater stood unchallenged as the champion of the G.O.P.'s conservative wing, thus was able to prevail over the badly fragmented moderates. Now, Reagan's ascendancy poses the threat of a conservative split. Reagan, in fact, said of Nixon to one Republican Governor: "This guy's a loser...
Most Morning Star colonists avoid acid. "I'd rather have beautiful chil- dren
...proposal was issued in the form of an executive order which either House must reject in 60 days or else it takes effect without amendment. To avoid such a possibility, the traditional anti-home rule factions--Southern segregationists who fear handing their own authority on D.C. matters to the local Negro majority, and local real estate and business interests who benefit from the low taxes--have stymied progress by introducing the President's plan in the form of a regular bill so that it could come under the District Committee and be amended and, in essence, defeated...
...Stokely's rabble-rousing, a band of youths similar to the "white hats" who proved so effective in Tampa and Dayton (see following story) was recruited the next day to help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that a sniper had fired the shot...
...Cherry Blossoms. If the socialist versions of Western lyrics sound a little choppy, it is because some Slavic languages "lack words of one syllable, which help rhythm, and are short on vowels," explains Czech Translator Jirima Fikejzova. "In any case," she adds, "we try to be more original and avoid the banal, moon-June endings of American songs...