Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sake, defeat that most bizarre of all economic doctrines, now having such an enormous vogue, which is that since Americans are now enjoying unprecedented incomes, and are getting them partly because of the war in Vietnam, we must, because of the war in Vietnam, avoid taxes on this more ample income and cut back on spending for the poor...
...field camps such as Pak Chong, the Thais are put through a grueling 35-day, 67-hour-week routine that teaches them everything from how to avoid guerrilla ambushes to the art of winning over suspicious villagers. The first attempts at civic action are tried in villages near the camps, working with the village headmen in sanitation, security and medical care. But the major thrust of the U.S. effort is relentlessly rugged combat training...
Evasive Action. Although today's FAA airways are the most extensive and best-controlled in the world, they are far from foolproof?even with their current traffic load. On two occasions in 1965, for example, airline pilots, confused by optical illusions, took violent evasive maneuvers to avoid airliners that were actually separated from them by 1,000 feet of altitude prescribed by FAA controllers. Such unnecessary evasive maneuvers were cited as the probable cause of the collision over New York's Westchester County between an Eastern Airlines Constellation and a TWA 707 jet. Although both planes were damaged...
...surrender membership lists. His response to Senator McCarthy in the early fifties shows he does not lack the courage to stand up to HUAC. In the present case Pusey was unwilling to commit the University until he saw the actual terms of the subpoena. Pusey was probably trying to avoid unnecessary publicity. Also, he may have been concerned with possible repercussions on Harvard's relations with other government committees and agencies...
...second month, the Fugs ban--censorship by police suggestion--is having an effect beyond the city limits of Cambridge. A number of dealers, hoping to avoid a confrontation with authorities, have removed the Fugs records from the racks. "It might have been from something objectionable, from what we gather," says one saleslady at Jordan Marsh in Boston. "Indecent," snaps the Book Clearing House. "Too dangerous,"" explains Vara's in Medford. And Farrington's of Arlington has this solution: "We don't have it in regular stock," says the manager. Lowering his voice, he continues...