Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently trying to avoid hiding behind the shield of classified information, the AEC Commissioners explained the possible reasons for a test resumption, emphasizing that scientists are not certain what will happen in a nuclear explosion high in the stratosphere...
...Reporter Salisbury ended, the Times itself felt it necessary to warn readers in an editorial against "wishful thinking" about Moscow's intentions: "Premier Khrushchev may well be anxious to avoid a nuclear war as long as the West is strong enough to meet a Soviet attack with retaliatory nuclear annihilation . . . But this does not necessarily mean real peace. 'Peaceful coexistence' may be nothing more than a way of waging all but nuclear war to assure a Communist world triumph...
...northern Katanga by mutinying Congolese troops. Lawson volunteered to fly to the terror-stricken town to rescue one missionary who reportedly had survived. Lawson's two Swedish pilots landed their Beaver plane at Kongolo's torn-up airfield, and Lawson threw himself out the door to avoid fire from snipers. "I was very lonely and very scared," he said. "I picked up my stick and strolled...
...nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody...
...athletic scholarships, and what appears to be an intensive effort to develop a big-time, commercially successful sport. . . These circumstances, pressing college sports on toward commercialism in aim and professionalism in spirit, are quite precisely the circumstances that the Ivy League colleges have banded together to avoid...