Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even WGN's avowed reason for canceling the film raised doubts as to its wisdom in knuckling under to what it called "an emotional reaction." The station ex plained lamely that it merely wanted to avoid being "a party to the development of any misunderstanding or ill will among persons of the Christian faith...
...favorite mystery of nature lovers is the behavior of the showy, black-and-orange Monarch butterflies, which appear to fly south in fall like migratory birds. Many authorities have doubted that insects have the brains and endurance to make a real migration to avoid the northern winter. The strategy of most insects is to sit out the winter as eggs or pupae. Last week Dr. Frederick Urquhart, director of Toronto's zoology museum, told about a 19-year study that tends to prove that Monarchs do migrate...
...Makars had written a letter "without a return address" renouncing their U.S. citizenship. During their stay in Sweden, they had gone to the Soviet embassy, declared their desire to become Soviet citizens, had finally boarded a plane for Moscow. There, in a downtown hotel, they furtively tried to avoid Western newsmen. But they had already spoken freely to the Soviet press, explaining that they had come to Russia because it had a big head start in Makar's field, "while in the United States we were just starting." The explanation was little comfort to some U.S. officials...
When Publisher Atkinson died in 1948, he left the paper to a charitable foundation that he had set up to avoid paying crippling inheritance taxes. To comply with an Ontario law that sets a seven-year limit on ownership of businesses by philanthropic groups, the paper technically should have been put up for sale last April. But when Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees...
...Hopper feels closer to Eakins than to any of his other predecessors, though he considers that "Eakins had much more humanity than I do." It is true that the people in Hopper's canvases are less individualized than the buildings, as if the artist had wished to avoid in truding on their lives. Hopper's own unalterable reserve makes him as surprising, in an age of clattering egos, as a tree growing in the middle of Main Street. He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker...