Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tooth paste, depilatories and underwear are obviously unsuitable. What to do about gossip columnists? "A well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash can be virtually sure [of] a line of print somewhere...
Next step will be to get member nations to vote the money. For purse-poor UNESCO, this may take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne; but Parisian reaction cannot be taken for granted. Said French Architect Zehrfuss: "They're noted bellyachers...
...column Moley, a former professor at Columbia, made reference to what he called Stevenson's "bored acceptance of the hopeless weakness and dumbness of the average man." He further alluded to the Illinois Governor's "esoteric rationalization" and said, "There is much evidence of indecision and an inclination to avoid facing hard realities...
They give two reasons: First, that course monitors could not avoid counting upperclass noses unless all the upperclassmen sat together. While such segregation is undesirable, it is also unnecessary. Upperclassmen can be assigned seats with no obligation to dutifully occupy them, and the course monitors can simply leave these places blank on their seating charts, to be filled in only if the upperclassman is on probation...
...after cleaning a plane's rug, and the coroner's jury reported that the victim had died from inhaling "halogenated hydrocarbon" from trichloroethylene, one of Glamorene's components. Professional rug cleaners gleefully took ads reproducing news stories about the San Francisco case and urging homeowners to avoid mishap by having experts clean their rugs. The health department banned Glamorene sales in San Francisco...