Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poker-face cover for continued Southern resistance. Bitter experience with the Northern press had convinced the whites that the best way to clamp down on Negro progress was to clamp down on Negro progress was to keep the press away; and the best way to do that was to avoid trouble. So the "White Only" signs disappeared, and so did the press...
Because a different bi-national commission must determine the response of each country to the cutbacks, the exact picture for next year will not immediately become clear. Fox has asked students to delay their applications, which are due Oct. 21, for a couple of weeks in order to avoid applying for programs which are terminated...
Mild Medicine. If it hits most of the high spots, the Nixon machine also manages to avoid dangerous pot holes and slippery curves. Speeches tend toward the platitudinous and noncontroversial. To solve the drug problem, Nixon said he would triple the number of customs agents, review smuggling laws, and work to establish international commissions to stop traffic in narcotics. All were reasonable enough proposals but they seemed like mild medicine indeed for the devastating plague that Nixon talked about...
...that jury duty is a financial burden. Even women have lost some of the special status. It used to be enough to claim that being away from the family was a hardship. Now, only women who have small children or qualify for some other exemption will be able to avoid jury duty...
...head together Saturday with its first rock show in 10 years to the strains of the overwhelming Chuck Berry classic, "Rock and Roll Music" ("any old time you choose it"). The radio station had persistently refrained from Rock & Roll over the last decade, presumably to avoid sullying its air channels with anything so low-brow as a dancing beat. But there is no keeping down a good backbeat ("you can't lose it") and the new hour-long rock program will be broadcast at 6 p.m. on Saturdays for the rest of the year...