Word: avoiding
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...could not assure permanent peace, but he managed to avoid war during a perilous decade. No civilian has ever spoken more often or with greater conviction about the need to end war. In 1961, retiring to his 200-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa.?the first home that he and Mamie ever owned?he raised cattle and tended the land. "I wanted to take a piece of ground like this that had been sort of worn out through improper use and try to restore it," he said a few years ago. "I just said that when...
...celebrated commander had one habit that, Eisenhower confessed, "never ceased to startle me. In reminiscing or in telling stories of the current scene, he talked of himself in the third person. 'So MacArthur went over to the Senator . . .' " Ike later-was to direct historians recording his official speeches to avoid "the perpendicular pronoun"?the simple...
Suspicion About Mediation. Stepping into the muggy heat at Ikeja airport, Wilson avoided suggestions that he had come to mediate. One reason was his awareness of a persistent local suspicion that he had come to pressure the federal military government to make concessions to the Biafrans. Major General Yakubu Gowon, who heads both army and government, intends to fight, he says, "until the rebellion is completely crushed" unless he hears "alternative suggestions," meaning Biafran capitulation. If Wilson presses him to stop by cutting off the arms supply, Gowon can easily cover any cutback in British shipments with increased deliveries from...
Anxious to escape abrasive confrontations of the kind that embroiled his two immediate predecessors, Richard Nixon had hoped to avoid direct federal intervention against price increases by private industry. Yet last week the President took strong steps to arrest soaring lumber prices-and there was little grumbling. His tactics much resembled those of the Johnson Administration, which in 1965 fought off aluminum and copper price rises by threatening to release supplies of the metals from Government stockpiles. Nixon ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to step up the sale of lumber from publicly owned forests, which contain more than half...
...Building Committee doubts that the present budget for Gund Hall is sufficient, Farbstein said. He said that the Committee thought the Harvard Corporation would try to solve the financial problem by planning for a smaller building, and that it would avoid providing for changes the Design students thought most necessary. These changes include...