Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick and tired of antiwar demonstrators bellyaching about something they know nothing about. I'm sick and tired of civil rights advocates who demand equality but cannot live like civilized human beings. I'm sick and tired of cowards who burn their draft cards to avoid serving their country in time of need. I'm sick and tired of having my flag mutilated by people not even worthy to hold...
...thing, they said, the Communist jets have forced many U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced to retreat to Red Chinese airfields, their effectiveness would be drastically reduced, since they would then have only three to five minutes...
...vote of Common Market members is less certain. De Gaulle is still opposed but because of declining popularity at home, would like to avoid using his veto again if he can. Even so, approval of Britain's entry is rated no more than a 50-50 chance. No one recognizes this more than Wilson. "If we do not succeed-through the decisions of others, not of ourselves-we shall not whine about it," he said. "We ask no favors. Our negotiations will be based on what we can contribute...
...find it far easier to attract students to a coed school. Coeducation also virtually doubles the fund-raising possibilities in a school's community. Mergers and affiliations also provide more economical operation; neighboring schools that agree to some plan of union can share faculties, libraries and lab facilities, avoid duplication of academic specialties...
...Times story caused bitter disputes between the project members who supported Scheer's move and those who thought it would destroy the project. At one point, Scheer was cancelled from the press conference in an attempt to avoid linking the two issues. With Scheer out of the conference, Carl Oglesby, former national president of SDS was brought in to replace his appeal to radical students.6A summer of nationwide "Alperovitzing" begins in Cambridge as door-to-door canvassers ring local doorbells...