Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation to the U.S. Naval Air Station near Memphis. Tenn.. 80 miles from Oxford. President Kennedy put aides to work drafting two speeches to the nation-one to be delivered if Barnett stepped aside, the other if he persisted in his defiance. The President still hoped to avoid sending military forces into Oxford. At one point during the 1960 campaign, he had said in reference to Little Rock: "There is more power in the presidency than to let things drift and then suddenly call out the troops." All during the Ole Miss crisis, that gibe at Eisenhower must have...
Berlin will long remember a young East German named Peter Fechter who last summer tried to escape across the Wall and was shot down by the Red border cops. Wounded, he was left to bleed to death by the Communists, while U.S. soldiers, under strict instructions to avoid "incidents," were not allowed to cross a few feet into East Berlin and help the dying man. When a wave of disgust swept Germany, the Allies responded by a feeble gesture: they stationed an ambulance at Checkpoint Charlie in the U.S. sector to pick up any future wounded fugitive and take...
...ever fall for long under the influence of any one group or man. In everything he did, as a matter of fact, he was a bit out of the mainstream. He was a Swedenborgian, a single taxer, a man who would go to just about any lengths to avoid putting on a new suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even dry. Clients who thought that they had bought a harvest scene would find that it had turned into a woodland...
...clock revealed two seconds remaining when the Crimson came out of the huddle. Mike Bassett began calling when suddenly Cornell captain Tony Turel plowed into Crimson center Joe Minotti. Turel had hoped to rough up the play just as time was expiring, and thereby avoid a penalty...
Item, Dialogue: Make this up-to-the-minute and, preferably, "snappy" (oh, give the English woman some jokes about tea, the Italian a couple of gags about the construction business, although you should generally avoid the line "You're built like a brick," which has been overused, and give both of them as many filthy phrases as you can get away with...