Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come into a wingless world lusting to fly and apparently equipped with some kind of built-in mental equipment which helped them do so? Sikorsky never goes so far as to conclude that he is an instrument of Divine Providence, but neither can he, as a deeply religious man, avoid-wondering how else to explain some of his own rarer moments of intuition...
Salazar rules calmly from the background, hating every minute of the occasional public appearances he cannot avoid. Living piously, almost austerely (up at 6:30 every morning for Mass), he pays himself a $500-a-month salary (plus a Lisbon mansion and a summer place made from an old seacoast fortress). He governs a land of 8,500,000 people and 35,000 square miles, plus overseas possessions (e.g., Mozambique, Macao) which make Portugal No. 3 of the world's colonial powers. His face-dominated by dark, thoughtful eyes and a long nose, and topped by neat, grey hair...
Motion picture moguls have always known that to be successful, a film must avoid plot and dialogue with an intellectual content higher than that found in the platitudes of Pa Kettle. At best, drama must be light-weight, with much false emotion and conflict of typed personalities. But the lines of patient people waiting to see Martin Luther prove that picture executives have at least as great a share of fallibility as Luther claimed for the Rope...
Anent Lexicographer Fowler's disapproval of the Long Variant [Oct. 12]: if we should avoid using "wastage" for "waste," how come Fowler's rather unique use of "usage" for "use"? BEN F. MEYER...
...Allied occupation of West Germany is tied directly to final ratification of the EDC. Adenauer's policy has been to avoid demands or outbursts which would harm EDC's chances in the French Assembly. But opposition Socialists and many of Adenauer's own colleagues are now urging him to press for German sovereignty without getting involved in the European Army. "If something does not begin developing after the French presidential elections in mid-December," said one German last week, "we'll begin to shout out loud what we have been thinking all along...