Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James sued Powell for libel, went to court, won a $211,500 jury verdict, which a judge later cut down to $46,500. To avoid paying off, Powell has since steered clear of New York, spent most of his time commuting between Capitol Hill, where he manages to appear for two or three days every week or so, and his villa in Puerto Rico. Interest on his evaded libel penalty has increased the amount owed to $52,000, and last week a jury, reviewing the whole history of the case, awarded Mrs. James an additional $210,000 for a total...
...Vietnam, it will have served a purpose rewarding from a humane point of view and necessary from a military point of view. The U.S. should protect the government from coups and seal the border by air attacks far from the China border and away from civilians; it must avoid escalation beyond this pint if the policy of playing for time is to be viable...
...piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
...replied, "Affirmative, however not on my scope at the present time." From the Pan American ship came the first word of disaster: "It looked like he's in the Bay then, because we saw him. He looked like he winged over to miss us and we tried to avoid him, and we saw a bright flash about one minute later. He was well over the top of us, and it looked like he went into an absolute vertical turn and kept rolling." Almost immediately, Air Canada Flight 627, which had taken off minutes before the Eastern Flight...
...Bond made that basic basic. Get in about the war. Invent a French girl, call her Nina. Give her attacks of compulsive eating, because she was in a concentration camp during the war. And give Nina attacks of compulsive sex. Explain how it was, not to be able to avoid doing it with the guards. The innocence-fused-with-evil bit. Make her a sex witch, every man's dream of coy seductiveness. Men fight over her. Fighting's another basic basic. So how do we rescue Nina from her compulsions? Well, there's this dream...