Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal to the now-dormant far-right wing by politicians vying for votes. One of the concerned is President Heinrich Lübke, who occupies a position above party politics. Dedicating a memorial at the site of the former Belsen concentration camp last week, he sternly advised politicians to avoid stirring up "the real or suspected dark side of our nation...
...willing to use it on behalf of another Communist nation. In the end, the monolithic character of the Communist camp would be restored under the auspices of the Soviet Union. We are moving closer to that military confrontation which nobody wants but which nobody knows how to avoid...
...YUGOSLAVIA. Avid for dollars, Tito's government forgives Americans guilty of traffic offenses that would land Yugoslavs in serious trouble. If an American goes to jail, it is usually only long enough for the cops to find a translator to call U.S. officials. To avoid accidents, however, avoid night driving. Roads are full of unlighted oxcarts and parked trucks with snoozing drivers. If he bumbles into forbidden areas at night, a tourist may find his car and himself ventilated by trigger-happy guards. Equally dangerous: trading black-market dollars or defacing Tito's ubiquitous pictures...
...revolution. Europe bequeathed to Africa and Asia what Dedijer calls a "double legacy"--a hatred of capitalist exploitation and a love for equality and freedom. This double legacy has been fused into the new revolutionary force of socialist movements of national liberation, which will hopefully remain neutral and avoid the excesses of either of the great world blocs...
Harvard has chosen to keep the deliberations of ad hoc committees secret and thus avoid the risk of public outrage that might attend the rejection of a tenure nomination, such as occurred at Yale this year in the Bernstein case. It is impossible to know for sure whether or not the committee act as a rubber stamp--whether the refusal of a nomination is a common occurrence, or whether the existence of the committees discourages thoughtless nominations...