Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, Gulliver is treading carefully, peering intently and sounding alerts so as to avoid harming the Lilliputians...
Most probably Miro's burning wish may have made him think he heard what he wanted to hear. Still, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Miro had been treated rather shabbily and that there was only one real beneficiary of the unseemly squabble: the Castro government, which, for a change, accurately reported the news on Havana radio...
...people who are for housing integration in theory do not care so much for it in practice-and many are the devices that have been used to avoid court bans against neighborhood covenants. Three years ago, Deerfield, 111., an upper-middle-class suburb of Chicago, thought up a new way to keep Negroes out of white areas. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, in effect, upheld Deerfield's device...
...much of the past year. Furthermore, steelmen take the chance of turning their customers increasingly to lower-priced imports, which rose by 1,000,000 tons last year, and to steel substitutes, which last year displaced 2,000,000 tons of steel. Wheeling wisely tried to avoid this peril by limiting its rise to products for which domestic demand is strong and import pressure is weak-sheets and strips widely used in cars and construction...
...were filled with reasoned factual descriptions of his positions, and simple, but informative descriptions of foreign countries. "My approach has always been a simple one. Many either speak down or lower themselves to the so-called 'level of the mob.' I try to excite people with larger problems; I avoid the local issues. As a national representative, it is my responsibility...