Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the university announced that it would try to eliminate the problem by setting up a "facility" of its own to accommodate the 100 Percenters. But would not membership in the facility still carry a stigma? In an earnest effort to avoid that, Sophomore Vice President Robert Hillier announced that he would accept no bids from any club, but would join the university's facility and bring "60 or 70 of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," said he. "Someone has to make...
...show was first conceived, Ford executives asked: "Where are the people who sang Porter's songs on Broadway?" CBS had two answers: 1) Ethel Merman is rehearsing a new Broadway musical (Happy Hunting) and Mary Martin's heart belongs to NBC, and 2) the network hoped to avoid stirring up lingering memories. "We deliberately tried to stay away from nostalgia," said Executive Producer Jack Rayel, and "furthermore, a baritone who sang in a Porter show 20 years ago could not be compared with Gordon MacRae today in appeal...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...persuasive arguments, but Stevenson's statements indicate that he is more ready to plan creatively to end the present confusion on the draft. They also indicate that Stevenson does not favour the unfortunate commitment to "massive retaliation." If the Democratic nominee were to debate the issue fully, he could avoid the current charges of demogoguery and in addition do the country a service...
...well-taken, but a minor reservation arises as to the manner of its presentation to the public. It would appear that the Department of Athletics tried to keep the story quiet. Releases were mailed to only a part of the regular mailing list, and there was careful wording to avoid the mention of the word "Negro," and to stress the word "eligibility." Furthermore, the issue was released during the World Series, when it could normally expect little notice on sports pages...