Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...mark. When SAMs tried to strong-arm Navy jets near Haiphong, the "airdales" roared in and struck the site, sending up spiraling smoke from a secondary explosion-probably a missile. Even when two SAMs were fired near Vinh at night, Air Force Phantoms could avoid them. "They looked like Roman candles," said one U.S. pilot, "lighting up the night sky." All told, only 14 of the 243 U.S. planes lost over North Viet Nam have fallen to missiles...
Whatever the spark for the summit, it was one that Brezhnev could not avoid. The Russian leader had been planning to go to Bucharest anyway, but Ceausescu's startling speech must have made the trip much more compelling...
Past experience has taught Brooke to avoid definite positions which could jeopardize his wide appeal. After two unsuccessful campaigns for election to the lower house of the state legislature and another defeat for the Massachusetts secretary of state, Brooke twice won election as attorney general against weak opposition. In the current race for the Senate, with polls giving him as much as a 55 per cent majority over Democratic hopefuls John Collins and Endicott Peabody, Brooke will again be content to sit safely on his consensus policies, successful public record, and personal image. "With my law background, I believe...
Crimson fans who do not like to see Harvard lose better avoid tomorrow's lacrosse game at Yale...