Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, he warned that China is counting on a long war in Vietnam and sees nothing to be gained from a negotiated settlement. "In Peking no less than in Washington, the desire to avoid another Munich is a major preoccupation of political leaders," Halperin said...
Halperin -- whose book China and the Bomb was published last year -- said "there is no reason to believe that the Chinese want a nuclear war or are not as determined as any political leadership to avoid a nuclear attack if possible...
...Prosecutor Richard Gerstein, who had won 24 previous capital cases, Aunt Candy and Nephew Mel had lived and loved together on Financier Mossler's money. Aggrieved over their lurid affair, Mossler allegedly planned a divorce that would have cut off their income and her potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped into a white car provided by Candy, drove to a bar near Mossler's Key Biscayne home and picked up a king-sized Coke bottle. At the odd hour of 1 a.m., Candy...
Hard Line. The collision shattered what hope there was that the ten industrial nations, which account for 70% of global trade, could avoid a stalemate on the mechanics of averting a clearly threatening crisis a few years hence. At De Gaulle's personal order, France not only returned to its hard line of a year ago that the only sensible basis for a world money system was gold-a view shared almost nowhere else-but now also insisted that any plan for world monetary reform should wait until the U.S. brought its inflationary trend under control and corrected...
...have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses modern life; it is standard all over the world. With it, you can project the idea of moving color, that is, a sensitive movement without agitation." He tries to avoid using pure light simply to outline objects, letting a blue aura suffuse a red one, as in his Another Moment of Happiness, to produce a purply halo...