Word: avoiding
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Most important, the maritime law doctrine that the seas are open to the use of all mankind explains how to avoid the insoluble problem of extending into space the exclusive right of each nation to the air above it. Sovereignty extends upward as far as the hunter's weapons can reach, suggested Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1623, and allowing for the extra zip of modern musketry, today's pragmatic solution turns out to be much the same...
Linguistic Sin. French zeal to avoid all this is rooted in feelings of national identity. French until recently was the world's diplomatic language. Only 65 million people now speak it as a first language; less than one-fourth of the U.N.'s 111 member nations still use it in debates. Franglais is spreading so fast, argues Parisian Linguist Alain Guillermou, that U.S. French teachers may soon have nothing to teach. Guillermou calls for a national commission to police Américanolatres on the ground that Franglais is not only a linguistic sin but is also...
...avoid the worst, Etiemble is preparing a dictionary (Parlez-Vous Franglais?) of French equivalents for Anglicisms. Even where there is none whatever (for Jeep, say), he will insist on French spelling (Jipe). Guillermou is devising a linguistic decompression chamber: a new French glossary with three sections-white pages for acceptable words, red for inadmissible ones, and green pages that "will be a sort of Ellis Island of the French vocabulary. After suitable nationalization, the words may move into the white pages...
Only by using extreme language on the slavery issue, they reasoned, could they avoid being branded appeasers by rivals, which seemed a sure road to defeat at the polls. It had become easier, in the South as elsewhere, to prey upon the fears and excite the prejudices of the electorate than to take the higher ground...
...Hall of Graduate Studies. There, amidst bundles of old laundry and discarded razor blades, he meticulously pored over books, clippings and back issues of Pravda. Russian-speaking Barghoorn knew his subject firsthand. From 1942 until 1947 he was a press attache at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. To avoid trouble, Barghoorn deliberately did not carry a camera during five trips to Russia between 1956 and last March, when he arranged for scholarly exchanges or gathered information for his recent books, Soviet Russian Nationalism and The Soviet Cultural Offensive. His critical opinions were no secret ("While talking peace, the Kremlin wages...