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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, the injury is permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Weak in the Knees | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...sure to use the Anderson-Saterfield ruling for new petitions of their own. Under last week's decision, those who cannot afford lawyers are now entitled to have one provided for every plea. Thus, if the deathrow inmates do not get their sentences revised, at least they will avoid the gas chamber a while longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sentences: Capital Punishment Is Constitutional | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Though the proposals of the parietal subcommitee were accepted, the group was formed by the administration only after it had decided that significant change was necessary to avoid unsightly publicity...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Power at Harvard | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

Pure Dirt. In enlightened 1968, even New York's moderately avant-garde critics are prepared to agree with Tuttle that yes, indeed all this may be art. But what kind of art? Some call it "antiform," for its outlines-or rather, its conspicuous efforts to avoid them. Others call it "process art," for it proudly shows off the marks of the process by which it was made. Another term is "conceptual art," for in every case, the concept behind the piece is infinitely more impressive than the workmanship. And "conceptual art," everybody agrees, is deliberately made hard to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Avant-Garde: Subtle, Cerebral, Elusive | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's varsity soccer team meets Yale in its season's finale this afternoon hoping to break a two-game losing streak and avoid finishing in the Ivy League's second division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GAME, THE WEEKEND, THE TITLE | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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