Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then along came New Hampshire, and some Iowa party leaders began wondering if it might not be a good idea to avoid committing themselves to any candidate. Soon, Henry Cabot Lodge's backers teamed up with those of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and a sizable group of undecided G.O.P. leaders to work for the election of uncommitted delegates. Since Goldwater seems to feel that those who are not actively for him are against him, the result was a relative defeat for Barry: only five Iowa delegates were firmly committed to him, with perhaps five more leaning...
...wenched and swindled lustily, he nevertheless ran his fief so effectively that it had less trouble from the Viet Cong than any other area. Can in vain advised his brothers, President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, to ease the measures against the Buddhists-not out of idealism but to avoid rocking the boat...
...Despite efforts to avoid incidents, once out-breaks occur fighting will escalate. The civil rights workers will be forced to fight back...
...Avoiding Pedagogy. Botticelli, like a good Old Master, built his works up painstakingly from "cartoons," or planned-out sketches, of his subjects. Often the structure is artfully veiled. In what is graceful enough to avoid pedagogy, Ortman pierces Botticelli's elegant illusion. He analyzes the exacting geometry which the Renaissance artist imposed on his curvy allegory of the feverish season of love, spotlighting by colored panels the gestures that narrate the painting. As on the chessboard, where the rational, 64-square battleground can scarcely contain the emotional knight, Ortman does not let the truth of his analysis overwhelm beauty...
...profits." Later in the week, he suggested that businessmen might even cut prices in some fields, "to give us," as he put it, "the best mousetrap at the lowest price." Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller repeated the President's warning against price rises, urged labor leaders to avoid asking for excessive wage demands if they "do not want the blame for restarting a wage-price spiral." He also repeated his prediction that G.N.P. will hit $623 billion for all 1964, adding that most economists are "at least this optimistic...