Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first the search concentrated on the women. The principal pro-Mossadegh daily, Bakhtar-e-Emruz, hinted broadly: "It is known that the general did not go out of his way to avoid the company of women." The police picked up Tamara, a faded femme fatale, Teheran's top belly dancer two decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh...
Nearly a hundred men & women were jailed for "rumormongering" or "using language offensive to the person of President Juan D. Perón." Also imprisoned were 800 merchants charged with black-marketing. But hundreds of other shopkeepers closed up voluntarily to avoid trouble, and housewives found meat just as hard to buy as before. One flaming night had not licked inflation or ended grumbling. Said the New York Times this week: "In the long run, [Perón] is doomed, because he is a foolish, bungling, evil dictator...
...Correspondent." For the last 21 years, The Washington Correspondent has been Pundit Arthur Krock, 66, whose title also makes him chief of the 24-man Times Washington bureau. Last week Chief Krock called the first full staff meeting since he took over the job. Solemnly, he explained that "to avoid misunderstanding," he wanted to read an important announcement: "On my own motion, Mr. James Reston will become The Washington Correspondent of the New York Times, with complete charge of the staff .. . Mr. Reston has received several very attractive offers to work elsewhere, one of them particularly tempting...
...Larson's complaints got only small results. Though it did change some of the texts used in the classrooms, the school board had at first obviously no desire to change much else. To avoid trouble, it even offered to pay the Larson children's tuition to the public school in nearby McHenry. But Mrs. Larson would have none of it. The daily bus ride, said she, would be too long, and "besides, Johnsburg is our school, too. Why should our kids have to go some place else...
Salome concerns a liberal, John, who is stirring up the populace with his wild doctrine. John soon comes to the notice of Joseph McCarthey (to avoid legal action, he is called Pontius Pilate in the film) who orders his arrest. Tiberius Caesar, a former military man now ruling the land--the implication here cannot be ignored--does not intercede and so the liberal loses his head for the last time...