Word: sidestep
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...Carmichael, 66, Alabama cotton farmer's son and onetime backwoods teacher, who as superintendent (since 1945) of the Louisville, Ky. school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
...Earl Howe, 75, felt compelled to report upon some involuntary research of his own. His lordship's ghastly experience in fashionable Mayfair not long ago: "I was confronted by a female who came out of a side street and stood in front of me. As I tried to sidestep, she sidestepped too, that way and the other way. [Laughter..] It sounds amusing, my lords, but it is not so amusing-really. I got bored with it. I took hold of her arms and put her on one side and tried to walk on. Whereupon she attacked me with...
...victim of existential anxiety may try to sidestep it by frenetic activity, or by worshiping secular concepts, such as success or nationalism. Or he may try to bury his anxieties in a "heteronomous" religion that offers him readymade certitudes for his uncertainties. In either case, says Tillich, the individual commits idolatry. Against such idolatry, Tillich asserts the Protestant Principle, which considers it presumptuous of any "conditional" institution, such as church or state, to pose as spokesman for the "unconditional," i.e., God. According to the Protestant Principle, as he expounds it, every Yes must be coupled with a corresponding...
Before Russia's May 27 deadline on Berlin, diplomats may find a way to sidestep or postpone a repetition of the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. But U.S. military planners can risk no false hopes. They are ready with alternate sets of operations orders, have plans for every predictable contingency save one: evacuation of U.S. troops. The omission is not an oversight or a gamble. U.S., British and French forces are set to hold the city against all Communist pressures save an all-out attack, which, the Russians well know, would start World War III. In the cold logistics...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 15--Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet first deputy premier, said today his country still wants a summit conference on world problems and the West cannot sidestep one forever...