Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Everett Dirksen, Platform Committee chairman, set out to write a "pungent" document that "any Republican can run on." It was obviously being molded, however, with Richard Nixon's shoe size in mind. All sides represented on the committee seemed determined to avoid the acrimony of 1964. Yet the proceedings, along with other recent discussions, outlined the party's options on the year's two major issues, Viet Nam and domestic upheaval...
Some of the sensitivity of the black students is probably related to their feeling of being on display. Summer School Director Crooks said, "What we try to avoid, but what we can't avoid is the feeling that they've been brought to this grand' institution to be looked...
...forbidden to eat meat and dairy food at the same meal, or from the same dishes. By tradition, an observant housewife must have four sets of dishes, silverware and kitchen accessories: one for meat, one for dairy products, and two sets used only during the season of Passover. To avoid the danger of contamination, meat and dairy dishes must be washed and dried separately...
...fact, shy away from hard-and-fast rules on dress, choosing instead to deal with individual cases of way-out clothing as they arise. San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. conducts grooming classes for its women employees in an effort to upgrade "taste," hopes in that way to avoid issuing rigid, morale-damaging rules...
Kaufman said the authors are trying to avoid duplicating the efforts of other works which deal with the Harvard scene, such as the Confidential Guide to Courses and the Phillips Brooks House Handbook...