Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion of the presidential campaign. "I have my own race to run," said he, "and I don't want to get mixed up in anything else." But well before the 1948 Democratic National Convention assembled, the Alabama political climate had grown unbearably hot. Sparkman, who at the beginning...
...Sparkman had already been nominated for a sixth term in the House when Bankhead died, could not have dropped out of the congressional race without allowing a Republican to win it by default. To avoid that disaster, he ran simultaneously for House and Senate and won both elections-the first man in U.S. history...
...Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
Said Wieland: "I want to concentrate on the persons." His other general idea was to avoid the style of a 19th century romantic love story and display Tristan as the "erotic mystery" he thinks "the old man" meant...
This is one of the oldest stories in the world, and Author Vittorini, like most of those who have retold it, has failed to avoid seamy sentimentality. His prostitute, aflame with love on one burner and cooking up illicit narcotic deals on the other, seems to Mainardi to be "The Madonna on Horseback"; but to the reader she is just a pipe dream. When the cops put her away at the end of the book, it is no more poignant than a decision by the gas company to lock up the meter...