Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always avoid the errors he denounced. He could be sugary at times, slick at others. But in such paintings as The Family, he had the quiet power that comes only to one who has command of his art and still sees beyond. "The artist," he told his students, "must show people more-more than they already see, and he must show them with so much human sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the beauty and the glory...
...same idea that he had used to settle two other transportation strikes this year: let both sides "voluntarily" resume work for 60 days while a three-man presidential fact-finding panel sieves the issues and submits nonbinding recommendations. Plainly this was an attempt by former Union Lawyer Goldberg to avoid taking an alternative route that he dislikes-a Taft-Hartley law injunction that would oblige the seamen to return to work for 80 days...
...textile-importing nations,* he pushed for greater textile imports into their countries from underdeveloped nations. Simultaneously, the U.S. sought to persuade textile-producing areas with low labor costs-Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and the U.A.R.-to agree to put voluntary limits on their exports so as to avoid complete disruption of the already glutted world textile market. The scheme had twin purposes: 1) to divert some Asian textiles from U.S. to European markets, and 2) to give the underdeveloped nations an economic boost in the form of European trade rather than...
...machines to restart a stopped heart have been devised on the West Coast. Both rely on the principle of pulsating pressure on the breastbone, thus avoiding the risks of penknife surgery and heart massage. One, built at the University of Oregon by Drs. Charles Dotter and Kurt Straube. is of model-T simplicity: an electric motor on a small table set up above the patient drives a plunger with a padded end that pounds the chest at a set speed up to 120 times a minute. It must be shut off as soon as a natural heartbeat returns, to avoid...
More and more brides are trying to avoid the hordes of "wedding-industry" salesmen by placing all their arrangements in the hands of a "marriage coordinator," such as Mrs. Gertrude Doran, 54, of Los Angeles. This year Mrs. Doran ("I can do as many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding...