Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emperor, marrying his son Antenor to a niece of Spain's Alfonso XIII, his daughters to a French count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid the nuisance of paying French taxes), old Simón handsomely built his own legation-plus palaces in Biarritz and Nice-and three Bolivian mansions, costing $30 million, two of which he never even saw before his death...
...Harvard as so many feathers in their bonnets. They would usually be willing, if asked to screen out the best prospects and lead the undergraduates to them. Secondly, there should be a close link between the Undergraduate Schools Committee and the Admissions Office, to help students in these areas avoid the pitfalls of tact and judgement that the so common in the recruitment game. Dean Bender's roving recruiters could also follow up good prospects in the underdeveloped areas...
...president. His avowed intentions were to watch the Army-Navy game on TV and to pass a restful Sunday broken only by one conference. Republican bigwigs began to trek up to Morningside Drive, but Ike himself became a shadowy, unseen figure. Probable purpose of his self-imposed seclusion: to avoid pinpointing the time of his departure for Korea...
...employee who hides behind the U.S. constitutional guarantees against self-incrimination to avoid saying whether he has been a Communist or has engaged in subversive or espionage work should be fired. The exercise of this constitutional privilege, said the attorneys, creates in itself a "suspicion of guilt...
Evidently, some method for damming up this flood of cheap literature must be established--a method which can avoid the dangers implicit in covert censorship...