Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were in town...
...many times," he shuddered in a nationwide television address, "have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test...
When he is not eulogizing or rhapsodizing or getting married or divorced (four times each), Jessel is working on a novel, The Empty Side of the Bed. Considering that he spends so much time at other people's funerals, it is hard for his friends to avoid the obvious question: When That Great Agent Up Yonder Books Jessel's Last Act, who will deliver the eulogy? As it happens, Jessel is toying with plans for a four-star performance featuring two Los Angeles rabbis, a Roman Catholic archbishop, and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Then again, Jessel...
...researchers urged the board to spend $110 million--$42 million of which is to be contributed by the Federal government--to build five "education centers" and three "middle schools." The centers, which would be carefully located to avoid racial imbalance, would be super-high schools having student bodies numbering between...