Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that he will not be wearing the patch forever. *By unhappy coincidence, ex-Budget Director Douglas also wears an eyepatch. In 1949, while U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was casting for salmon in West Hampshire, snagged a fishhook in his left eye. He adopted the patch to avoid double vision-incidentally inspiring the advertising campaign of the Man in the Hathaway Shirt. * To return to Washington in December, 1954 as Ike's special assistant on foreign economic policy...
...other Times employees invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering at least some questions: ¶ Jack Shafer, 44, foreign-desk copyreader for nearly seven years, who testified that the Times fired him before the hearings started, when he indicated that he would duck behind the Fifth. ¶ Nathan Aleskovsky, 43, assistant to the editor of the Sunday Book Review section, where he worked for five years. He denied that he is now a Communist, but would not say if he had belonged to the party. He said that the Times had demanded and got his resignation...
...considerable length of time, the group still managed to accomplish its usual odd jobs quietly, and usually efficiently. It succeeded in reorganizing the Class Day Committee, thereby unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able to subsist largely on its interest alone, using money collected from students only as emergency aid for undergraduate organizations...
...voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When one old boy claims St. Patrick for a Protestant, when another argues evolution, because monkeys, like men, are fond of beer, everything starts coming alive, expands, grows vibrant...
...wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit, 6) avoid an excess of jacket padding, 7) get chummy with a good tailor...