Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching Yalta from afar last week the West could not avoid the automatic twinge of uneasiness that comes whenever Communists get together. It would be a jar, indeed, to have strong, rambunctious Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...
There is no question, moreover, that this may be the best Tufts team ever fielded and Lloyd Jordan and his staff are doing their best to keep the Crimson "up" for the game--to avoid the defeat handed it by UMass, 13-7, two years ago. But with so many schools of Harvard's size to play, it seems foolish for the Crimson to persist in playing games with teams that "have nothing to lose and everything to gain...
...best way to avoid this misadventure is "loft-bombing," which uses the speed of the airplane to make the bomb behave like an artillery shell. The airplane is equipped with a "black box" of gyros and electronics named LABS (Low Altitude Bombing System), manufactured by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full...
...minority President, Ponce seems to be well aware that in order to serve out his term he must carefully avoid provoking the suspicious, disgruntled Liberal majority. In his inaugural address last week, he sounded more liberal than the Liberals, promising to end "feudalism, absentee-landlordism and bossism," and declaring that the time had come "to give land to many ... to take away from our dialectical revolutionaries any pretext for their adventures...
...keeps Stevenson on the go is a paradox as a roving correspondent of the Star, he takes his orders from the city desk, and whenever he runs out of assignments and returns to Toronto, he is routinely assigned to the 7 a.m. rewrite shift to work on obits. To avoid this, he thinks up his own assignments, e.g., hunting the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, when the foreign front is relatively quiet...