Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru's stand on nonalignment is not merely a matter of philosophical sophistication. It is part of a deliberate and practical policy to avoid a global...
...midst of the Cuban crisis, on Oct. 24, the day Soviet ships altered their course to avoid collision with the U.S. Navy, a U.S. businessman in Moscow was negotiating a trade deal with Soviet officials. Suddenly, their talks were interrupted by a phone call from the Kremlin: Nikita Khrushchev would be happy to receive William E. Knox, president of Westinghouse International Co. Knox had not asked for the interview, so Khrushchev, as he often does, was obviously trying to use an American visitor to pipe some of his views into the U.S. This week Knox revealed what was said...
...been badly tarnished by intraparty squabbles and by his international status seeking in Havana and points East. Ben Bella's latest excuse for his recent visit to Castro: "I would have failed in my duty if I had not gone to Cuba to learn about its experiences and avoid in my country the errors that have been made there...
...Avoid Wasting Time." An abstemious bachelor, Latourette met these responsibilities by keeping to a rigid work schedule that allowed him precisely one hour a day for walking. Yale legend has it that professors breakfasting at the Divinity School dining room know it is 8 o'clock when Latourette flips his copy of the New York Times to the editorial page. "That is just a myth," he says. "All I try to do is to avoid wasting time...
...hatred of Communist Russia. For years Hess was under the spell of Professor Karl Haushofer, the geopolitical genius of Naziism who provided Hitler with his slogan of Lebensraum as a pretext for aggression. Hitler was parroting Haushofer when, in Mein Kampf, he wrote of the absolute need to avoid war on two fronts. But the success of the German armies intoxicated him, and he became more and more intent on attacking Russia. In the months before the flight, Haushofer kept telling the impressionable Hess that he and he alone could save the impetuous Hitler and Germany by bringing about...