Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room was a four-layer cake (the bottom two layers were wood). Freeman announced that "to keep things simple and avoid any resemblance to her last marriage-on the Riviera," no champagne would be served. But one indignant reporter pointed out that "we weren't on the Riviera," so Freeman agreeably changed the pitch. "You want champagne," said he. "O.K., champagne." During a fast and heady wedding luncheon, reporters toasted Rita and Dick. Then the happy but weary couple made for Rita's apartment on the hotel grounds, followed by an entourage of newsmen and hotel employees...
...Chicago's Central Television Service, Inc. (with the help of a psychologist) for its own and fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...
...warehouse supplies of fats and oils were going up in smoke. Instead of rushing to the scene of the disaster, Procter went to the telegraph office, dispatched wires and cables to the oil markets of the world, bought all the oil futures he could. Not only did he thus avoid a squeeze at the hands of speculators but he had plenty of raw materials on hand when P. & G.'s new plant, Ivorydale, opened in Cincinnati's suburbs...
Portrait on a Cameo. Far different from De Lattre, Navarre also proved that he was a different man from his immediate predecessor, General Raoul Salan, a fully competent professional soldier who was handcuffed both by Paris' orders to avoid casualties and by his own lack of military panache...
Director Henry Koster and Scriptwriter Philip Dunne have made a real effort to avoid the pitfalls of Biblical movies by balancing the saintly preaching of Dean Jagger (as Justus) and Michael Rennie (as Peter) with the muscular Christianity of Burton and Mature. There is a minimum of the sex and sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion...