Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aversion to the printed page, as a student picked up the knack of absorbing pertinent passages from books or papers that were read aloud to him. But though he has no intellectual pretensions, the Tunku commands unswerving loyalty from his brilliant subordinates for his almost charmed ability to avoid political mistakes. Says an aide: "He understands the Malay mind better than anyone else ever has." Abdul Rahman agrees. "I have the feel of the people." he says. "I have the touch...
...woman stagger and stumble up the island carrying their burden to the crops. In rain, in wind, in exhaustion, in mental agony, they courageously carry on. But after the fifth repeat of that same strikingly realistic climb, only a viewer doped up with No-Doz can avoid drowsiness, or even sleep...
...started in Bonn fortnight ago when rebellious members of the Bundestag rounded up enough votes to reverse the government's cancellation of a juicy $20 million Soviet pipe order. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rushed back home from a Lake Como vacation on the eve of the balloting, managed to avoid humiliating defeat only by ordering his Christian Democrats to stay off the floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic significance to Moscow's pipeline network...
...Near East this month. An original song or two will be played, with Gus doing the singing, and someone will warmly recall all the more attractive details of his success story. But, having discreetly pronounced Gus's own all-inclusive account of his life "unintelligible," the VOA will avoid telling the world the complete story of how a man gets to be a folk-music hero at 79-down home in Memphis...
...concentration on Hawaiian shipping made Matson a helpless victim of six Pacific ocean-going unions. Even though its Hawaii run was not subsidized by the U.S. Government, Matson had to follow suit when subsidized U.S. shipping lines gave in to frequent wage demands to avoid strikes. Result: labor now accounts for half of its operating costs on freighters and even more on passenger liners. High operating costs have also led to freight-rate rises of 48% since 1957, prompting many Hawaiian businessmen to blame Matson for the island's dizzily high prices and to shop for alternate shipping lines...