Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
After the 1962 decision, which was passed over the dissenting vote of Sir Percy Spender, he was quoted as having said "hard cases make bad decisions," implying that the case was political and not legal in nature. Sir Percy's deciding vote last week might have been cast to avoid a legal judgement of a political issue--this would be a generous interpretation...
...favorable direction. Sir Percy should have accepted the court's original ruling that it did have jurisdiction, and gone on to examine the content of Ethiopia's and Liberia's complaints. Instead his decision to throw the case out of court must be interpreted as a political move to avoid a condemnation of apartheid. The final decision attained what Lewis called "a level of sophistication even the U.S. Supreme Court has failed to reach." Ethiopia and Liberia had legal standing enough to merit a ruling...
Shrugging off reporters' questions, Sir William, who will stay on as Jaguar's chief, half-humorously said that he had been hanging on to his controlling interest just "to avoid being taken over by an American company...
...Southern white moderate who has witnessed the murders and goes into a Hamlet-like state of indecision about whether or not to tell anyone. Don Tindall, Sklar's Hamlet, is in love with Jean Portugal, a COFO girl from the North. With this premise And People All Around cannot avoid being yet another treatment of the predicament of the uncommited white man. Not that everything has already been said on this matter, but coming from such an obviously committed individual as Mr. Sklar, his play seems to have an excessively moderate outlook, as a result of which it fails...