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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wave to the Peronista crowd would be interpreted as support of anti-government forces, and he had no desire to make a formal anti-Perón statement. He did the best he could under the circumstances, retreated into the icy aloofness he has been striving to avoid. "The matter concerns them and them alone," he told an aide. He never mentioned the Peronistas in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: As You Would Greet Me | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...avoid the danger that someone inside might suffer from the "martini effect" all the controls are located on the outside and manned by highly skilled personnel breathing air at ordinary pressures. Elaborate instrumentation with a variety of fail-safe mechanisms delivers medical gases under extra pressure to the doctors inside. As a further safeguard, the four chambers at the Hennepin Hospital are all equipped with closed-circuit TV, so that monitors on the outside can watch everything that the operating team does on the inside, and sound an alert if normal operating procedures should be violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Under Pressure | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...want a stupid father," stated one typical LBJ girl. Many other chose Johnson to avoid an "unbalanced" family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is LBJ More Fatherly Than Barry? | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

...Dictator of Syria, Adib Shishekly always feared assassination and took infinite pains to avoid it. He carried one gun in a shoulder holster, kept another in his desk drawer. In Damascus he maintained four homes besides his official palace, slipped from one to the other for a meal or a night's sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Vengeance for the Druzes | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...successful test, however, does not make a fleet of Hydroskimmers, and numerous problems remain to be solved. For one, the craft moves so fast as it approaches a beach that the helmsman has almost no time to avoid bad landing spots. Little is known about how the Hydroskimmer handles in a rough sea, and a heavy surf might damage the craft's engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Assault on an Air Cushion | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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