Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payoff. Dulles also followed the broad-picture approach in his campaign to restore confidence in the State Department. Foreign policy, he argued, must not only be concrete enough to work, it must also be coherent enough for the people to understand. In his congressional relations, he was careful to avoid Acheson's chief personality defect--contempt for the ignorant. During his first seven months in office Dulles gut in 32 appearances before congressional committees, held 58 unofficial meetings with congressional groups...
...first data given in a case history are usually name, address and age, and if the patient is a woman, the profession of her husband. For women, two important points already arise. First as to her age. If at all possible, an experienced patient will avoid giving an age between 40 and 60, for it is part of the acknowledged armory of modern medicine to hold the climacteric responsible for all complaints arising in this period of a woman's life. The absence of specific symptoms is immaterial...Every complaint from toothache to corns may be explained by ovarian...
...other fields. These elementary and intermediate language courses necessarily involve a large amount of purely mechanical memory work, which should be done in secondary school. If every candidate for admission had to take three years of a foreign language before coming to Harvard, he would be able to avoid the elementary courses entirely. Intermediate courses, in turn, could be improved to give the students a greater understanding of the history and culture of the countries. However, if an otherwise qualified applicant has not taken any languages, he should be required to begin one as an extra, non-credit course...
...three, Ivy Films, HLU, and the UN Council, decided to combine their film-showing ventures to avoid the cut throat competition of last spring. Not only were they each showing at an average rate of one picture per week, but the Brattle Theatre opened and attracted a large audience away from the New Lecture Hall filmings. Organizations which though films would be a sure panacea for their deficits found themselves showing to empty houses...
While the Council deserves praise for initiating and--until now--maintaining the exchange program, this incident underlines the mistake of cherishing independence above cooperation. It is now too late to avoid the one-year gap in the German exchange plan, but this breakdown should show the Council the folly of headstrong separation from University Hall...