Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what I, personally, am about. That is what we are attempting to do. You cannot, with a magic wand, create conditions of peace which you and I would both hope to serve. Nor can you do it by obviating the great concern. And above all things we must avoid action that would allow a third World War to come about. Sometimes limited action, as we all know from our domestic experiences, can prevent more tremendous holocaust. And if there is a justification for our policy, that is the justification of our policy. That is what has to be argued...
...theme of photography as an escape from reality is not a new one. In Hitchcock's Rear Window, the crippled photographer (James Stewart) uses his telephoto lenses to spy on his neigbors. He becomes involved with their problems in order to avoid coping with his own fear of life and an impending marital commitment. Through an ultimately therapeutic encounter with violent evil, Stewart can finally understand and solve his problems...
...fire hazard of a pure-oxygen system. Designers spared no efforts to fireproof the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. All electrical wiring was coated with noncombustible materials. Devices capable of sending out sparks were placed in sealed boxes. Space suits, seats, instruments and cabin walls were all designed to avoid the generation of static electricity...
...assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory to avoid some Viet Nam demonstrators. "God bless you," he told two startled girls...
...impossible for a team to avoid a little strain between its members in the midst of a long losing streak. For that reason. Dressler believes the two-week layoff came at just the right moment. "We were in a rut," Dressler admitted. "and the break did us good...