Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Castello Branco is at heart a homebody who prefers to shun the limelight, Costa is an ebullient man about town who loves to put a few cruzeiros on his favorite horse, chat with attractive women and tell amusing stories on himself. Last week, as the two men marched up the aisle of Brasilia's Chamber of Deputies building for the swearing-in, a grim Castello Branco looked straight ahead; Costa, relaxed and enjoying himself, threw genial glances to friends and relatives. After the oath of office, Castello Branco stiffly shook hands with Costa's wife, lolanda; Costa...
...girls' anxieties and correct their misunderstandings about pregnancy. One Detroit girl, for example, had been told by her mother that someone must die for everyone who is born-and believed it when her father died just before she gave birth to her baby. The center specialists also shun moralizing. "We do not condone the pregnancy," says Chicago Teacher Sarah Jackson, "but we try to give the girls a feeling of human dignity...
Nothing is better calculated to keep dollar-laden American tourists away from a foreign land than the prospect of uncertain comforts. Even business men tend to shun outposts where the hot water runs cold, the cold water may be undrinkable, or the food too bacterial for tender Western stomachs. Nearly a score of underdeveloped countries have overcome the problem of sleazy accommodations - and so bolstered their economies - by turning to Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...
...Administration fails to take their doubts seriously, it may find the middle moving further and further left. And those critics whom these leaders shun may then provide more fitting expression for the dissatisfaction of this generation...
...high school students have tried marijuana at least once, and that 25% use it regularly once or twice a week. At Berkeley, marijuana has given way to acid, which costs $2.50 per trip v. $2 for a milder marijuana kick. In fact, though, the great majority of Now People shun the traditional opium derivatives-heroin and morphine-because they represent a passive withdrawal from experience. They want their "now" heightened and more meaningful...