Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From a technical point of view, a witness who relies excessively upon the First Amendment may not avoid a committee citation for contempt. Hence, so many witnesses in recent years have relied upon the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England. The First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, belief and religion were protected by the Puritans' refusal...
Clubs like the HYRC and HLU, strongholds of political interest, cannot muster enough internal disagreement for really fruitful debate. And they view debates with each other something like troops regard combat with fixed bayonets. The majority of students avoid all these clubs, sometimes because they do not want to be themselves to national organizations and sometimes because they abhor "student politics...
...cards in existing political clubs, none of the congress's parties should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses, and Union distinctly non-political bodies, could avoid this. Inside the congress, of course, parties can be as partisan as they wish...
...coach moved on to his football specialties. His lines surged forward in a duck-walk, then faltered, and broke-Schmitt backpedaled to avoid the onslaught. Only a few duck-waddled back into place; the rest walked with their instructor...
They can easily avoid widowhood by 1) cremating themselves on their husband's funeral pyre; 2) contributing to the heart fund (in order to help cure the greatest destroyer of middle-aged males); 3) refusing to nag their husbands, or 40) marrying men younger than themselves...