Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved in bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John Pro-fumo's affair with Christine Keeler had resulted in any leakage of Allied secrets, and quashed partisan speculation that Harold Macmillan's Cabinet had sought to protect the former War Secretary in order to avoid another scandal...
After the end, coach John Yovicsin, who rarely likes to make excuses, indicated he thought the new substitution rule had cost Harvard the ball game. Mass coach Vic Fusia, happy to avoid defeat, cheerfully noted that "it helped us tie you." Because of the complicated restrictions, Harvard players had unwittingly used up half of the four time-outs allotted to them in the half. Two other time-outs had been called deliberately, leaving Bassett but one opportunity to stop the clock in the closing seconds: an incomplete forward pass...
...promise. Under federal court order, two Negroes, James Hood and Vivian Malone, were scheduled to enroll in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa last June. For months prior to that, University President Frank Rose had painstakingly planned to comply with the court order in a way that would avoid violence. Rose made it perfectly plain that he did not want Wallace butting...
...dean also said that next year the College hopes to avoid the huge lines which formed at course sectioning Saturday, when hundreds of students queued up through the night and early morning seeking admission to Natural Sciences 6, Evolution, which was offered for the first time this fall...
Lebrun's figures are simple in the sense that they avoid detail and scrupulous realism, but they lack technical economy. Superfluous lines preclude maximum effects of weight and power, as well as any real linear grace. Despite the artist's great predilection and proven talent for drawing, he has conceived these figures in sculptural terms and consequently his line is most effective when he uses it to suggest volumes. When he uses line seemingly for its own sake, the results are less fortunate...