Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspects never slept in the same house on successive nights. Many had their photos in an "Arrest on Sight" mug file at police headquarters. To avoid detection on Singapore's teeming streets, they spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
...white man to approach the Negro with no consciousness of color is, I believe, a great mistake. For this is an invitation, to the white man to avoid the conflicts of the racial problem altogether--an invitation which he has shown himself quite anxious to accept. The white man would very much like to believe your statement that the so-called Negro Problem has nothing to do with color. But in fact it has everything to do with color, and he cannot escape this fact. His real problem, however, is that he sees in terms of black or white, instead...
Limiting the Consequences. McNamara has a curious theory that the U.S. and Russia, even if they come to thermonuclear blows, might limit their strikes to strategic military installations and avoid 'blasts against major population centers: "It would certainly be in their interest as well as ours to try to limit the terrible consequences of a nuclear exchange...
...further shaken Broadway's already shaky economics, and has hastened the death of at least two shows that represented an investment of $190,000. Though Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright opened to generally favorable reviews, few New Yorkers could read them-and the show closed after 33 performances. To avoid the same fate. Bert Lahr's comedy. The Beauty Part, has been spending three times the normal advertising budget to conduct contests for free tickets and hire a skywriting plane. Without newspapers, mail orders for Broadway tickets are way down; Beauty Part orders trickle in at only about...
...Triumph of a Sausage. The plot of the novel is simply how many prison rules Shukhov will get away with breaking in a single day. After eight years in the camp, he has an animal cunning for finding food and avoiding punishment. He knows when to press forward, when to hang back, whom to be near, whom to avoid. In a complex series of maneuvers, any one of which could land him in the cell, he wangles an extra bowl of soup, some tobacco, and-his triumph-a slice of sausage, which he exultantly swallows in bed: "the brief moment...