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[ verb ] treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly

Used in print

(The Nation, 193: 16...)

Over all these fairly awkward problems Khrushchev was to skate rather lightly ; and , though he repeated , over_and_over_again , the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980 , the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a_little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in_practice , especially in respect of food .

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