Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws may be ignored, a figure that rises to 39% among those under 30 and to 38% among professional people, Divorce is sanctioned by 72% (84% among professionals), telling lies in certain circumstances by 59%, suicide by 12%, and ignoring a victim's cry for help-presumably to avoid the dangers of involvement-by 22%. On the other hand, Americans continue to favor capital punishment, 48% to 38%; the figure is 58% among men but falls to 40% among women...
...Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted over Ecuador's capital of Quito...
...installed 110 volts A.C.?that's fine"?meanwhile running his hand along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread. In a bathroom, he climbed into the tub, fully clothed, to test its leg room, then turned on the shower?soaking his jacket in the process...
...depreciatory toward geographic locations or abnormal unfortunates. Say 'For the tourists from Cornville' rather than 'For the tourists from Sioux City.' Say 'For the Gay Boys,' or similar, without scorn. We sell books. They buy them?much more than one would think." Fielding, in fact, would just as soon avoid calling them tourists. "Nobody likes that," he says, and in his Guide, he goes out of his way to use synonyms ("travelers," "voyagers," "vacationers"), euphemisms ("pilgrims") and conceits ("Guidesters...
...money, the only bright spot of the book is the 24-page section the editors turned over to Harvard blacks. The eight articles do not avoid repitition, but unlike the rest of Three Thirty Three, they are written with some verve and contain some information. We learn that two-thirds of Harvard blacks are second-generation college students and that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites...