Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti-Democratic avalanche...
...Joseph Schneiders, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of South Bend, Ind., is not exactly the most popular figure in his politically conservative town. He has held antiwar meetings in the church, counseled youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire...
...what had happened until the barber had strapped me in and begun his lecture on the evils of liberalism, the North, and--most of all--long hair. In a way, I had to be grateful. For the rest of the summer, my semi-U.S. Marine appearance helped me avoid trouble...
FROM the outset of the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon have tiptoed with excruciating care around the issue of the Viet Nam war. Both wished to avoid saying anything that might jeopardize the peace talks in Paris. Conveniently, the negotiations also gave both an excuse to avoid making themselves targets for either hawks or doves...
Former Common Market Chief Wal ter Hallstein mused aloud on whether the Soviets might not succeed in reducing West Germany to the status of a second Finland-fearful, quiescent and accommodating. Seeking to avoid any words that might provoke the Russians, Kiesinger repeatedly edited and rewrote his Bundestag speech. As he explained to his associates: "We must not hold a lighted match under the tail of an already enraged bear...