Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the "radical and ill-conceived" safety ideas include the thought that "we abandon hope of teaching drivers to avoid traffic accidents and concentrate on designing cars that will make collisions harmless." This, he said, "is a little like suggesting that we neglect good health habits in favor of reliance on miracle drugs-and on some method of compelling people to take them...
...Cool the burns fast by removing clothing if it is loose, and immersing them in cold water (tap water, ice water, milk, soft drinks, or whatever is handy). For large burns, avoid excess chilling by using tap water without...
...days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters" of Hawkins' book. The implication is unjust; Hawkins is long-winded but not dangerously sedative, and even the digressions cut out by Editor Davis (an essay on taverns, a list of 14 ways a criminal may avoid justice) sound rather lively. Boswell sums up the remaining objections in the fourth paragraph of his own Life. He charges Hawkins with solemnity and digressiveness (true), inaccuracy (partly true, to about the extent that it is true of Boswell), triviality (mostly untrue), and a "dark, uncharitable cast" of thought (untrue...
...circular tunnel and the experimental hall are shielded by concrete walls ten feet thick. To avoid radioactive dangers, doors seal automatically and a 40-ton crane operated by remote control moves equipment...
...does not, of course, totally avoid subjects of common knowledge: a study of Russia could, after all, hardly be complete without its survey on the subject of surpassing American milk and butter production. Yet since agriculture is Mr. Hindus' forte, his remarks on farming often prove quite interesting. He notes, for example, that the Soviet milkmaid has "by the grace of Khrushchev, ...been lifted to the status of a new heroine on Soviet farms." For spending her entire day at pitching hay to at most twenty-five cows, milking them, and cleaning their stalls-what to an American farmer...