Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, James Buchanan wore a dress sword to avoid being confused with the servants...
...Faculty's desire to avoid adding elementary language courses to the undergraduate curriculum was the chief reason for its veto of the proposal to teach Swahili for credit, according to President Pusey...
...vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said in it, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue virtually without contradiction. Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they dont even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality may be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...still bothering him. Newsmen noticed that while the President was getting off his jet in a recent visit to Columbus, he hung tightly to the ramp railing, quickly lowered himself step by step. Earlier, while seated at a press briefing, the President dropped some papers on the floor. To avoid bending over, he fished up a few between his feet, then asked aides to pick up the rest...
...investors who buy and sell according to the advice of their astrologers have been told to play it safe for a few weeks. The people of Katmandu have built straw huts on the city's parade ground, and propose to spend the night of Feb. 3 there to avoid being trapped in earthquake-toppled houses...