Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professionals were still muttering amid their charts and graphs, the President of the U.S. stepped before bleary-eyed reporters in the nation's capital one day last week and delivered, off-the-cuff. a clear, one-sentence analysis: "I believe that the voters feel they want to avoid extremes...
...prints for President Eisenhower's "atoms for peace" plan. It involved, said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the setting up of an International Atomic Energy Agency, which would be loosely linked to U.N. (as are such agencies as UNESCO) but not directly under U.N., so as to avoid Russian vetoes. Member nations (eight Western atomic powers) would contribute materials and information, support it with money, make their scientists and facilities available to others...
...become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital establishment at Lambar...
...laws of the new constitution also provide that the president, after formally consulting the executive Cabinet, can make recommendations to the President of the University or to the chairman of the PBH Committee concerning, the choice of a Graduate Secretary. This provision is apparently intended to avoid controversies such as that between the Cabinet and the University appointing committee in 1953 over the selection of Hastie as Graduate Secretary...
Dunster desires to set a limit on the number of couples that will be admitted, in order to avoid overcrowding, Gerald A. Lewis '55, Chairman of its dance Committee, said yesterday. "I don't see how you can reasonably limit the number of couples on an interchangeable ticket basis," he stated. "Furthermore, without the incentive of competition, there would be a tendency, at least, for the quality of the dance to suffer...