Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
NONFICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...This is not an American show," the President told the National Security Council on the eve of his departure. In Manila he went out of his way to avoid the limelight-even though he was clearly the main attraction for the mobs. "We are not even No. 2," he kept reminding aides during the seven-nation meeting on Viet Nam. "We are No. 7." In public appearances, he squeezed no arms, slapped no backs. During a picture-taking session before the Philippine House of Representatives, he carefully stood a couple of steps below his Asian colleagues...
...certain speaker warranted extra police at Rindge. But he has also said he will not be made a "censor" of who speaks at the school--something he would become if the current plan went through. The Committee under the current proposal could still reject anyone Watson proposed. To avoid another Carmichael controversy, Watson would have to judge how acceptable each prospective speaker would be to the Committee...
Acting like this just to avoid company would be absurd. And cavers do have other reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...