Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...Palms. As a result, they now pump hands with a scientific assiduity that would have made the late Estes Kefauver look like a basket case. Can didates for congressional and statewide races nowadays do their best to avoid neighborhood coffee klatsches as too time-consuming in terms of voters palmed per hour. Instead, they bustle through factories, supermarkets and bowling alleys, developing calluses as they strive for 300 hands an hour. This year especially the individual candidate must grope his own way to success, since there are no presidential coattails to hang...
...month ago former Governor Ellis Arnall, a moderate with a distinctly liberal image, ran ahead of five other candidates by 55,000 votes in the Democratic gubernatorial primary--a comfortable margin, but not large enough to avoid a runoff with staunch segregationist Lester Maddox...
...other candidates directed their attacks at Arnall, the frontrunner, while Arnall carefully concentrated his campaigning on Callaway to avoid alienating the other Democratic candidates' supporters. At worst, Arnall strategists expected only to be forced into a runoff before winning decisively...
...period is not popular among students for work, it is a favorite time for the faculty members, who like to drop by for a few hours after afternoon classes. When the sun hits the offices they are caught in a spotlight and as their rooms heat up they cannot avoid putting on a show for the secretaries across the courtyard. In any case, all the offices need curtains -- why give someone a private office devoid of privacy? True, hangings might break the lines of the building, but here is one case where beauty must give way to utility...