Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, it never even occurs to me to shake hands or salute with my left hand. I long ago learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...
...cities cannot be done away with. A nation of 200 million or 300 million-as the U.S. will be in another generation-cannot survive without a vast bureaucracy and without a multitude of laws. The day is long gone when a family could simply pack up to avoid being hemmed in by complexity. Even as technology opens up vast new worlds, extending man's powers and perceptions a thousand-or millionfold, many long for the simplicity of an earlier era. Yet there is no escape...
...Mice. Parapsychology, in fact, is international. In Britain, Mathematician S. G. Soal has long toyed with basic ESP phenomena.* A respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...
...shooting. Rather, as Cooper indicated, the defense would try to prove that because of mental or emotional illness, Sirhan lacked the malice or "specific intent" required for a first-degree conviction. Unlike a plea of insanity-which can lead to acquittal-the strategy has been used mainly to avoid execution. Thus, the defense in the Sirhan case may be willing to settle for a second-degree murder or manslaughter verdict, since neither of these charges carries the death penalty...
...excessive boom in business. The principal ingredients are a small-and perhaps precarious-budget surplus (see THE NATION) and a Federal Reserve Board policy of permitting the supply of money and credit to expand less than it has over the past three years. What the nation must avoid, warned Johnson, is "an overdose of restraint" that could easily lead to recession...