Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opponents of HUAC deserve a chance to debate not only the Committee's dubious activities, but also the economy of its operation. If HUAC uses tricks to avoid its critics, it will only convince more Congressmen that it should be abolished...
...made three trips there in five months. But as a loyal ambassador, Lodge is immobilized. He cannot stand aside and comment on, much less criticize, Administration policy. And since Viet Nam promises to be a key election issue, Lodge, if he were to head the ticket, could hardly avoid an embarrassing crossfire of criticism himself...
...forge ahead with reforms. Their first target: the "degrading" rickshas that plied the narrow streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar's Arab and Indian quarter. "No longer will men work as animals on Zanzibar" Karume declared, personally putting the torch to a pile of gasoline-soaked rickshas. To avoid political backfire, he promised the owners $280 each in compensation...
...cure such ignorance, yet avoid charges of proselytizing, Warshaw developed a reading course, drawn from the King James Version, that stresses literary influence rather than theological interpretation. His students soon found a new dimension in Moby Dick's Ishmael or Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, learned the origin of a doubting Thomas, a Jonah or a Judas, and got the point of Handel's Messiah or Harry Belafonte's rocking Noah. On new tests, Warshaw's pupils pushed their grades to high levels, and a couple of students named Cohen and O'Connell got perfect...
...high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Though it was the altitude champ of its day, the U-2 flew so slowly (500 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft.) that the Russians were eventually able to shoot one down. The All was specifically designed to fly high enough and fast enough to avoid trouble...