Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system had worked. There was, he said, evidence "indicating that illegal and improper attempts were being made by close labor union associates of the defendant to contact and influence certain members of the jury." Records of two special court sessions, kept secret until the trial's end to avoid prejudice, showed that one prospective juror had reported to Miller a $10,000 bribe offer. Two regular jurors had been disqualified after attempts to influence them-one of them a housewife whose highway-patrolman husband testified he had been offered help in getting a promotion by Ewing King, president...
...Lines sent a special candy-cane-striped bus reeling down the city's streets. Denver's gift-giving was handled partly by rented Santa Clauses, who, for about $5, delicately park their cars half a block away from the receivee's home (the better to avoid the reindeer issue), ring sleigh bells rather than the doorbell, but hand over the present instead of escorting it down the chimney...
...strange tools of their new trade. Odd shapes bulge above the horizon from Russia to Australia and all across the U.S. Great dishes of steel lacework sweep slowly across the sky; giant troughs rock like cradles; forests of poles and miles of wire stretch out in geometrical patterns. To avoid electrical interference, most of the radio telescopes hide away in mountain-ringed valleys, far from towns or well-traveled highways. But they are never far from the minds and hopes of scientists. Radio astronomy is barely 30 years old, and new discoveries are being recorded almost every...
...wants to sell the Yards to University, it has left itself several loopholes to avoid selling to the bidder. Previous statements have that the Corporation will not to pay much above $7 million...
Using questionnaire responses and application folders, the Radcliffe Residence Office attempted to avoid major errors in freshman roommate assignment. "But there is a minimum number of things we can do, and after that the situation must and does take care of itself," Miss Williston said, "in this area, there is such a thing as working very hard for very little reward...