Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should any public funds be used to protect Nixon? A Justice Department spokesman said that it has been "common practice" for federal officials to be so defended, lest they shun their official duties out of fear of future suits...
Though the ministers often cut wide swaths in the nightclubs of the various world capitals in which they meet, the full-time secretariat bureaucrats seldom mix with Vienna's society. Its officers seem to shun publicity, realizing that their cause evokes little popular sympathy outside the oil-producing countries...
Though many (President Bok included, no doubt) would shun the sub-vocalizings of the more inept ideologues of white supremacy--the geneticists of a new type (scientists in name, white supremacists in deed)--a frank appraisal of the situation suggests that their influence at Harvard is stronger than Harvard's public liberal image admits. How they came to wield such power, even in the presidents' office, is a mystery which at this point only President Bok can unravel. Although some clues in that mystery can only be provided by President Bok, I would like briefly to locate a few essential...
...most professionally proficient of the three. Speaking quickly and precisely without notes, he rescued Jaworski from technical pitfalls and calmly challenged the Chief Justice on his interpretation of legal precedents. He urged the court not to shy away from a decision that might have profound political implications nor to shun its duty to decide a basic constitutional issue. He asked the Justices to "fully, explicitly, decisively?and definitively?uphold Judge Sirica's decision...
...gesture. Leaflets scattered by the frogmen admonished Lebanese fishermen against assisting Palestinian guerrillas in launching other seaborne attacks similar to the assault on Nahariya, which Israel believed must have originated in a Lebanese port. "Take this warning to heart before it is too late," the leaflets said in Arabic. "Shun evil. Avoid it at all cost...