Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons ends by creating the one effect the producers were presumably trying to avoid: unadulterated dullness...
...they can't possibly be realized, and then . . . either there'll be an open disillusionment and a feeling of dismay on the part of the people and a feeling that . . . the only alternative is war ... Or then there's the possibility that, in an effort to avoid that danger, the heads of government meeting there might arrive at sort of an appearance of agreement under ambiguous words where there was no real agreement...
...sight reference-for example, to a man inside a free-floating space ship, says Major Simons, "indications are that severe disorientation can occur." Nevertheless, he concludes, accumulating evidence indicates that man can learn to get used to the sense of floating or falling, and master his reactions sufficiently "to avoid an attack of incapacitating space-sickness...
...liver cure, but in their own way, 43 villages, towns and cities in West Germany are staging "musical manifestations" this summer. In the rest of Europe, from Mediterranean to Baltic Sea, there are some half a hundred more. Seventeen of them have found it advisable to band together to avoid conflicts in scheduling, programming and hiring of artists, and to prevent rivalries from breaking...
...Despite record sales abroad, the foreign-trade deficit was $49,500,000 in March-partly because France stubbornly concentrates on exporting such low-profit items as textiles and semifinished steels. Industry, hit by high wage costs and elaborate fringe benefits imposed by strong unions and by government fiat (to avoid strikes), has tried to recoup by price-fixing and cartel schemes rather than modernization and better production methods. Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon (onetime board chairman of the Manhattan investment firm of Dillon, Read & Co.) last week surveyed the French comeback from World War II and concluded: "It is hard...