Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent in the approval of a resolution that states that there are no Scriptural barriers to interracial marriage and urges Presbyterians to work for the elimination of the 19 state laws that still forbid it. Yet in drawing up the creed. Dowey explained, the committee was careful to avoid endorsing such things as sit-ins, since "you don't write this year's program into a confession. Civil rights is just the first quarter-inch in miles...
...Simons go out rarely, usually avoid the cocktail-party circuit. They enjoy visits from their two sons, Donald, 28, a University of Southern California graduate student, and Robert, 26, head of Hunt's vegetable procurement division, and their three grandchildren. They travel frequently, last week returned from a ten-day trip to Florence and Rome, where they soaked up art and opera and ate canelloni and Florentine steaks. At home, they prefer to entertain in small groups, mostly drawn from art and education circles, that make for lively conversation. Jean Fowles and her husband Edward at tended one meal...
...potter also became a pioneer of the industrial revolution. He built a model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...choice of residences is as wide as the choice of recreations. Prospective dwellings range from a one-room efficiency flat in a high-rise apartment building through a $25,400 three-bedroom town house to a custom-built home on a large lot for $60,000 or more. To avoid a drab uniformity, Simon has assigned the designing responsibilities to five different architectural firms, and they have come through with flying colors. Instead of picture-window ranch houses or cramped Cape Cod saltboxes, Reston offers handsome modern architecture and quality construction found in few developments today...
...what they call the "substantials" of the society. Much depends upon how radical a reform Pope Paul will tolerate. Although last year he urged a convention of religious superiors to keep abreast of the Council, his address to the delegates was a quite traditional plea to combat atheism and avoid "indulging to excess in the novelties...