Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reliable sources in Washington have indicated that Boston has definitely been under consideration for some time, but no official word has as yet been given. There was speculation earlier that Boston would not be selected because of the committee's desire to avoid strong protests such as occurred in San Francisco...
...effort to avoid any such trouble this spring, several undergraduates recently called two informal meetings of producers of spring-term shows. The first was held just before Christmas vacation, and the poor attendance was no surprise. The failure of all but five shows to send representatives to yesterday's meeting, however, is more difficult to explain or excuse...
Giesler's client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry...
...scientists began working on VIPS when they discovered that pilots react quickest to spoken commands; even when a pilot is beginning to black out from G forces and can no longer see warning lights, he hears and understands a distinctive voice. A feminine voice was chosen for VIPS to avoid confusion with the voices of other crewmen. The whole system weighs only 8 Ibs., but its quick-acting brain can even assign priorities when several warnings are called for at once. If engine oil is low, Gina's voice reports the problem, but in case of more urgent danger...
...told a friend last week in the U.S., where he is currently on a lecture tour. "Camus and Sartre and Malraux saw life the way I did-as meaningless and absurd, with war the most meaningless absurdity of all. And yet, instead of withdrawing and doing our best to avoid suffering, which would be the logical course, we all worked hard and risked our lives in the Resistance. Why? Another way of asking this is: What...